 Sputum
"Sputum" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
Material coughed up from the lungs and expectorated via the mouth. It contains MUCUS, cellular debris, and microorganisms. It may also contain blood or pus.
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D013183
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| MeSH Number(s) |
A12.200.808
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| Concept/Terms |
Sputum, Induced- Sputum, Induced
- Induced Sputum
- Induced Sputums
- Sputums, Induced
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Sputum" by people in UAMS Profiles by year, and whether "Sputum" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2025 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2023 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2022 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2021 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2016 | 1 | 2 | 3 | | 2015 | 0 | 4 | 4 | | 2014 | 1 | 3 | 4 | | 2013 | 1 | 2 | 3 | | 2012 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2011 | 1 | 3 | 4 | | 2009 | 2 | 2 | 4 | | 2008 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 2007 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2006 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2005 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2003 | 0 | 2 | 2 | | 2002 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2001 | 1 | 2 | 3 | | 2000 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 1999 | 2 | 1 | 3 | | 1998 | 2 | 0 | 2 | | 1996 | 2 | 1 | 3 | | 1994 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 1993 | 0 | 2 | 2 | | 1992 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 1991 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Sputum" by people in Profiles over the past ten years.
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Youngquist BM, Saliba J, Kim Y, Cutro TJ, Lyon CJ, Olivo J, Ha N, Fine J, Colman R, Vergara C, Robinson J, LaCourse S, Garfein RS, Catanzaro DG, Lange C, Perez-Then E, Graviss EA, Mitchell CD, Rodwell T, Ning B, Hu TY. Rapid tuberculosis diagnosis from respiratory or blood samples by a low cost, portable lab-in-tube assay. Sci Transl Med. 2025 Apr 09; 17(793):eadp6411.
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Gandhi T, Shah A, Gautam N, Meena N. One- versus two-specimen Xpert strategy to discontinue airborne isolation in suspected pulmonary tuberculosis: systematic review and meta-analysis. Clin Microbiol Infect. 2023 Nov; 29(11):1385-1392.
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Smith-Jeffcoat SE, Eisenach KD, Joloba M, Ssengooba W, Namaganda C, Nsereko M, Okware B, Cavanaugh JS, Cegielski JP. Quantification of multidrug-resistant M. tuberculosis bacilli in sputum during the first 8 weeks of treatment. Int J Tuberc Lung Dis. 2022 Nov 01; 26(11):1058-1064.
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Demers AM, Kim S, McCallum S, Eisenach K, Hughes M, Naini L, Mendoza-Ticona A, Pradhan N, Narunsky K, Poongulali S, Badal-Faesen S, Upton C, Smith E, Shah NS, Churchyard G, Gupta A, Hesseling A, Swindells S. Drug susceptibility patterns of Mycobacterium tuberculosis from adults with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis and implications for a household contact preventive therapy trial. BMC Infect Dis. 2021 Feb 24; 21(1):205.
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Colman RE, Anderson J, Lemmer D, Lehmkuhl E, Georghiou SB, Heaton H, Wiggins K, Gillece JD, Schupp JM, Catanzaro DG, Crudu V, Cohen T, Rodwell TC, Engelthaler DM. Rapid Drug Susceptibility Testing of Drug-Resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis Isolates Directly from Clinical Samples by Use of Amplicon Sequencing: a Proof-of-Concept Study. J Clin Microbiol. 2016 08; 54(8):2058-67.
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Seifert M, Ajbani K, Georghiou SB, Catanzaro D, Rodrigues C, Crudu V, Victor TC, Garfein RS, Catanzaro A, Rodwell TC. A performance evaluation of MTBDRplus version 2 for the diagnosis of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis. Int J Tuberc Lung Dis. 2016 May; 20(5):631-7.
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Demers AM, Venter A, Friedrich SO, Rojas-Ponce G, Mapamba D, Jugheli L, Sasamalo M, Almeida D, Dorasamy A, Jentsch U, Gibson M, Everitt D, Eisenach KD, Diacon AH. Direct Susceptibility Testing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis for Pyrazinamide by Use of the Bactec MGIT 960 System. J Clin Microbiol. 2016 05; 54(5):1276-81.
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Wampande EM, Hatzios SK, Achan B, Mupere E, Nsereko M, Mayanja HK, Eisenach K, Boom WH, Gagneux S, Joloba ML. A single-nucleotide-polymorphism real-time PCR assay for genotyping of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex in peri-urban Kampala. BMC Infect Dis. 2015 Sep 30; 15:396.
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