| He noted that his chronic, dry cough had produced discolored sputum in recent days. |
| This suggests that the intervention improved clinical selection of cases for sputum sampling. |
| Cultures of blood, sputum, intravascular catheter tips, and wounds were used to confirm the presence of bacteria. |
| In order to get a fair idea about the relative frequency of the various types in lobar pneumonia, a similar tabulation has been made of the rubiginous sputa. |
| They continued: 'He alighteth on the dung heap and the swill barrel, on the sputa of tuberculosis and excreta of the fevered. |
| The patient continued to expectorate thick nummular and puriform sputa, as in the influenza. |
