Results: A positive bacterial culture was obtained from 84% of patients sputum if it was purulent on presentation compared with only 38% if it was mucoid (p < 0.0001). When restudied in the stable ...

Three months previously he had a cough that was productive of large amounts of mucoid, brownish sputum. Three weeks before entry increasing fatigue and slightly blood-streaked sputum were observed.

Clinically, the features of acute bacterial pneumonia present no differently among gravid and nonpregnant patients. Hopwood [8] reported that among 23 pregnant patients who developed pneumonia ...

The sputum was negative for tubercle bacilli by smear on 3 occasions. It was stringy and mucoid, amounting to 15 to 30 cc. per day. On many days there was no sputum at all. No diagnosis was made ...

It can also cause you to cough. If you have an increased amount of mucus, you may cough up white, green, or brownish sputum. The color of sputum can suggest infection, bleeding, or another condition ...