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Induced sputum was diagnostic of PCP in 2 patients whose BAL results were negative.
The isolation of MAC in BAL or sputum does not distinguish between disease and colonization.
The addition of P&PD did not increase sputum volume for the group as a whole.
Assays of 30 randomly chosen clinical isolates from the middle ear of children with otitis media and from the sputum of adults with COPD show that isolates of nontypeable H. influenzae demonstrate striking differences in their propensity to grow as biofilms in vitro.
The classic chest radiographic findings of patients with PCP include bilateral diffuse opacities [ 7 ] . However, some patients present with unusual chest radiographic findings [ 7 8 ] . In a multicenter study from the United States, the in-hospital mortality rate of hospitalized patients with cytologically confirmed PCP was 14% [ 9 ] . The PIP study showed that PCP is unusual in patients with normal CD4 +lymphocyte count and serum LDH concentration, can present with atypical chest radiographic findings, can be diagnosed from induced sputum in most of the cases, and is associated with 11% mortality.