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 ...

and a mild cough productive of a small amount of whitish, mucoid sputum. This illness was short lasting, but thereafter the pain persisted and gradually became more severe but remained ...

with the development of some mucoid sputum. A physician prescribed pills that controlled the cough fairly well until the time of admission. The sputum had never contained blood or pus, and the ...

Phlegm, also known as sputum, is a kind of mucus made in your chest and usually ... “Phlegm can vary in texture from being frothy and mucoid to being purulent and mucopurulent due to several variables ...

When recording colony morphology, it is important to also record color, optical properties (translucence, sheen) and texture (moist, mucoid or dry). However, remember that color is often influenced by ...

According to Dr Akshay Budhraja, Senior Consultant, Respiratory and Sleep Medicine, Aakash Healthcare, the common signs of pneumonia are cough, fever, body ache, change in colour of sputum ...

It's a sign of inflammation and irritation. (Mucus is produced by the nose.) You might hear the term "sputum" used — this is phlegm that you expel through coughing. If excess mucus is your only ...

Values of 1 and 2 reflected the nature of mucoid sputum (opaque or milky), whereas values of 3 to 8 reflected increasing yellow-green coloration up to the darkest color observed in sputum from ...