Fiberoptic Bronchoscopy and Culture of Bacteria from the Lower Respiratory Tract*
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Forty-five specimens were obtained by sequential translaryngeal aspiration and fiberoptic bronchoscopy from 31 clinically uninfected patients with lung cancer in order to evaluate the reliability of routine fiberoptic bronehoscopy for culture of the tower respiratory tract. Bacteria were recovered from 98 percent (44) of the specimens obtained ‘via fiberoptic bronchoscopy and from 58 percent (26) of the specimens obtained by the preceding translaryngeal aspiration. The microorganisms grown from cultures of specimens obtained by fiberoptic bronchoscopy consisted of mixtures of both nonpathogenic
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