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We think Assumption 1 may not have held due to the short interval between screens and to the fact that the performance of sputum cytology screening depends on sampling of the tumor cells.
For all patients blood, urine, stool and sputum samples were collected.
The phagocytes of such patients are deficient in their capacity to kill organisms by oxidative means because of a defective NADPH oxidase [ 17 18 ] . B. cepacia also poses a threat to patients with CF, either cocolonizing those already infected with P. aeruginosa or as the sole infecting agent [ 2 18 ] . Although rates of colonization can vary widely (between 5 and 70%), B. cepacia is isolated from sputum in only 10%-20% of patients with CF [ 2 3 ] . B. cepacia , a very diverse species, has been divided into several "classes" of bacteria, i.e., genomovars, collectively referred to as the B. cepacia complex.
Study subjects who were acid-fast bacilli sputum smear and culture negative at the one-year follow-up sputum examination were considered cured.
The percent of positive AFB smears and cultures was greater in samples of sputum followed by the samples of stool (Table 5).