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(Chest. 1961;40:639-642.)
© 1961 American College of Chest Physicians

The Use of Hypertonic Aerosol in Production of Sputum for Diagnosis of Tuberculosis

Comparison with Gastric Specimens

NESTOR M. HENSLER USAF, MC1; CHARLES G. SPIVEY JR. USAF, MC1; and TOM M. DEES USAF, MC1

1 Pulmonary Disease Service, USAF Hospital Scott, Scott Air Force Base, Illinois.

Sputum induced by inhalation of a heated hypertonic aerosol yielded a greater number of cultures positive for tubercle bacilli than did gastric specimens from the same group of in-patients under investigation for tuberculosis. The method appears to have value in the diagnosis of inflammatory disease of the lung and deserves further study.






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