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• This method, called sputum-smear microscopy, was developed well over a century ago. —  Doctors Without Borders
• This might allow caregivers to determine a patient's resistance patterns, but the method comes with all the problems associated with culture described above: it relies on sputum samples, so the technique is of limited use to those unable to produce sputum or with extra-pulmonary TB. —  Doctors Without Borders
• The Seeplex MTB ACE Detection detects both extra-pulmonary and pulmonary TB from various specimens, such as sputum, body fluid, bronchial washing, urine, stool, CSF, and bone marrow aspiration. —  Marketwire - Breaking News Releases
• However recent research by Dr Simon Waddell and colleagues from St George's University of London and the University of Leicester, using gene chips to look at how TB bacteria behave in different environments, revealed that the tuberculosis bacteria in the sputum (phlegm coughed from the lungs) of TB patients resemble bacteria that are growing very slowly or hardly at all. —  RxPG News : Latest Medical, Healthcare and Research News
• Scientists from Britain and Canada also find that a simple test of sputum (coughed up matter) can reveal which patients would most likely benefit from mepolizumab. —  Science News / Features, Blog Entries, Column Entries, Issues, News Items and Book Reviews

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