 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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Below are the most recent publications written about "Sputum" by people in Profiles over the past ten years.
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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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Yang ZH, Gorden T, Liu DP, Mukasa L, Patil N, Bates JH. Increasing likelihood of advanced pulmonary tuberculosis at initial diagnosis in a low-incidence US state. Int J Tuberc Lung Dis. 2018 06 01; 22(6):628-636.
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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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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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Colman RE, Schupp JM, Hicks ND, Smith DE, Buchhagen JL, Valafar F, Crudu V, Romancenco E, Noroc E, Jackson L, Catanzaro DG, Rodwell TC, Catanzaro A, Keim P, Engelthaler DM. Detection of Low-Level Mixed-Population Drug Resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis Using High Fidelity Amplicon Sequencing. PLoS One. 2015; 10(5):e0126626.
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Garfein RS, Catanzaro DG, Rodwell TC, Avalos E, Jackson RL, Kaping J, Evasco H, Rodrigues C, Crudu V, Lin SY, Groessl E, Groessel E, Hillery N, Trollip A, Ganiats T, Victor TC, Eisenach K, Valafar F, Channick J, Qian L, Catanzaro A. Phenotypic and genotypic diversity in a multinational sample of drug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates. Int J Tuberc Lung Dis. 2015 Apr; 19(4):420-7.
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Dawson R, Diacon AH, Everitt D, van Niekerk C, Donald PR, Burger DA, Schall R, Spigelman M, Conradie A, Eisenach K, Venter A, Ive P, Page-Shipp L, Variava E, Reither K, Ntinginya NE, Pym A, von Groote-Bidlingmaier F, Mendel CM. Efficiency and safety of the combination of moxifloxacin, pretomanid (PA-824), and pyrazinamide during the first 8 weeks of antituberculosis treatment: a phase 2b, open-label, partly randomised trial in patients with drug-susceptible or drug-resistant pulmonary tuberculosis. Lancet. 2015 May 02; 385(9979):1738-1747.
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Hillery N, Groessl EJ, Trollip A, Catanzaro D, Jackson L, Rodwell TC, Garfein RS, Lin SY, Eisenach K, Ganiats TG, Park D, Valafar F, Rodrigues C, Crudu V, Victor TC, Catanzaro A. The Global Consortium for Drug-resistant Tuberculosis Diagnostics (GCDD): design of a multi-site, head-to-head study of three rapid tests to detect extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis. Trials. 2014 Nov 06; 15:434.
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Wallis RS, Dawson R, Friedrich SO, Venter A, Paige D, Zhu T, Silvia A, Gobey J, Ellery C, Zhang Y, Eisenach K, Miller P, Diacon AH. Mycobactericidal activity of sutezolid (PNU-100480) in sputum (EBA) and blood (WBA) of patients with pulmonary tuberculosis. PLoS One. 2014; 9(4):e94462.
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Heilig CM, Feng PJ, Joloba ML, Johnson JL, Morgan K, Gitta P, Boom WH, Mayanja-Kizza H, Eisenach KD, Bozeman L, Goldberg SV. How we determined the most reliable solid medium for studying treatment of tuberculosis. Tuberculosis (Edinb). 2014 May; 94(3):317-22.
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Trollip AP, Moore D, Coronel J, Caviedes L, Klages S, Victor T, Romancenco E, Crudu V, Ajbani K, Vineet VP, Rodrigues C, Jackson RL, Eisenach K, Garfein RS, Rodwell TC, Desmond E, Groessl EJ, Ganiats TG, Catanzaro A. Second-line drug susceptibility breakpoints for Mycobacterium tuberculosis using the MODS assay. Int J Tuberc Lung Dis. 2014 Feb; 18(2):227-32.
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