Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America2000Vol. 31pp. -
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Abstract
From February 1995 through May 1997, we prospectively studied 533 patients with community-acquired pneumonia requiring hospitalization in order to assess the current usefulness of sputum Gram stain in guiding the etiologic diagnosis and initial antibiotic therapy when applied routinely. Sputum sampl …