%0 Journal Article %9 ACL : Articles dans des revues avec comité de lecture répertoriées par l'AERES %A Dubourg, G. %A Abat, C. %A Rolain, J. M. %A Raoult, Didier %T Correlation between sputum and bronchoalveolar lavage fluid cultures %D 2015 %L PAR00012936 %G ENG %J Journal of Clinical Microbiology %@ 0095-1137 %M ISI:000350204600038 %N 3 %P 994-996 %R 10.1128/jcm.02918-14 %U https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/PAR00012936 %V 53 %W Horizon (IRD) %X A correlation study of the cultured bacteria from paired sputum and bronchoalveolar lavage fluid samples was performed. The rates of concordant culture-positive paired specimens that were isolated within 1 or 7 days were 93.7% and 96.5%, respectively, suggesting that the culture of readily collectable sputum specimens may result in useful microbiologic diagnosis. %$ 084