High yield of liquid mycobacterial culture in pleural fluid and tissue Source: Annual Congress 2011 - Extrapulmonary tuberculosis and surgical interventions Year: 2011
No difference in moxifloxacin penetration between infected and uninfected pleural fluid Source: Annual Congress 2013 –Bacterial, fungal and mycobacterial infections Year: 2013
The diagnostic yield of bedside inoculation of pleural fluid into BACTEC liquid media in tuberculous pleurisy Source: Eur Respir J 2004; 24: Suppl. 48, 425s Year: 2004
Routine use of pleural fluid cultures. Are they indicated? Source: Eur Respir J 2001; 18: Suppl. 33, 139s Year: 2001
Pleural fluid AFB culture predicts the development of residual pleural thickening in tuberculosis Source: Annual Congress 2012 - Tuberculosis: clinical findings III Year: 2012
Cytological effects of prolonged storage of fresh pleural fluid samples Source: Annual Congress 2009 - Diagnosis and management of pleural effusions and mesothelioma: improving old techniques and new tools Year: 2009
Comparison studies of GENEXPERT versus MGIT culture of Bronchial Lavage in sputum smear negative suspected Pulmonary Tuberculosis Source: International Congress 2017 – Microbiology and laboratory techniques to monitor NTM infections Year: 2017
BACTEC Myco/F increases culture yield from HIV positive patients with pleural tuberculosis Source: Eur Respir J 2001; 18: Suppl. 33, 361s Year: 2001
Yield of routine culture of bronchoalveolar lavage fluid for tuberculosis in a low prevalence setting Source: Annual Congress 2013 –Tuberculosis diagnosis Year: 2013
Intrapleural tPA increases pleural fluid output in pleural infection, independent of chest X-ray opacification Source: International Congress 2015 – Pneumonia: determinants of clinical outcomes and potential strategies to improve its management Year: 2015
High fluorescence cells in pleural fluid. Association with pleural malignancy Source: Annual Congress 2013 –Clinical problems in mediastinal and pleural malignacies Year: 2013
Yield of sputum AFB smear, gene xpert & sputum culture of MTB in biopsy proven Pleural Tuberculosis. Source: International Congress 2018 – Pulmonary tuberculosis: long term complications, rehabilitation and challenges Year: 2018
Value of smear and PCR in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid in culture positive pulmonary tuberculosis Source: Eur Respir J 2005; 26: 767-772 Year: 2005
Comparison of PCR and culture based detection of pathogens in bronchoalveolar fluid in neutropenic children Source: Annual Congress 2013 –The burden of respiratory infections in children Year: 2013
A review of pleural fluid TB culture at a large acute UK hospital Source: International Congress 2014 – Tuberculosis: diagnosis Year: 2014
Changes in body temperature, white blood cells count and differential blood count after only diagnostic thoracoscopy and thoracoscopic pleurodesis in patients with malignant pleural effusions Source: Annual Congress 2013 –Chest wall and pleura Year: 2013
Utility of pleural fluid glucose measurement in TB pleural effusions. Source: Virtual Congress 2020 – The young, the old and extrapulmonary tuberculosis Year: 2020
Treatment of parapneumonic pleural effusion and empyema by chest drainage with a thin slit-type catheter Source: International Congress 2014 – Different interesting issues in respiratory infections: 1 Year: 2014
Usefulness of BAL in non-HIV inmunocompromised hosts with lung infiltrates Source: International Congress 2014 – Resistance, bacteriological profile and comorbidities in respiratory infections Year: 2014
Protein profiling of pleural fluid in guiding management of infectious parapneumonic effusion in children Source: International Congress 2015 – Paediatric pulmonary infections Year: 2015