[Bacteriology of acute exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in Tunisia].

CONCLUSIONS: Awareness of the low positivity of quantitative sputum bacteriology and the large percentage of resistant strains with a predominance of exclusively multi-resistant Pseudomonas should help in the management of patients with AECOPD.
PMID: 29395563 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Revue des Maladies Respiratoires - February 7, 2018 Category: Respiratory Medicine Tags: Rev Mal Respir Source Type: research