Pollock H M, Hawkins E L, Bonner J R, Sparkman T, Bass J B
J Clin Microbiol. 1983 Feb;17(2):255-9. doi: 10.1128/jcm.17.2.255-259.1983.
Quantitative bacteriology was performed on specimens collected by protected catheter fiberoptic bronchoscopy from 172 patients. Of the patients who had pneumonia, 75 of 78 (96%) had one or more species present at greater than or equal to 10(3) CFU/ml, whereas 2 of 35 (6%) control patients had organisms present in that quantity. In addition, 66% of the control specimens yielded no isolates by this technique. All of the 11 patients with bronchitis had greater than or equal to 10(3) CFU/ml. Quantitative bacteriology revealed high levels of colonization in patients without infection and endobronchial structural disease. The data suggest that bacterial counts of greater than or equal to 10(3) CFU/ml in suspended secretions collected with a protected catheter brush were diagnostic of the bacteriological etiology of lower respiratory tract infections in patients without endobronchial structural abnormalities.
对通过受保护导管纤维支气管镜从172例患者采集的标本进行了定量细菌学检测。在患有肺炎的患者中,78例中有75例(96%)存在一种或多种细菌,其数量大于或等于10³CFU/ml,而35例对照患者中有2例(6%)的细菌数量达到该水平。此外,66%的对照标本通过该技术未分离出细菌。所有11例支气管炎患者的细菌数量均大于或等于10³CFU/ml。定量细菌学显示,在无感染和支气管内结构疾病的患者中存在高水平的定植。数据表明,使用受保护导管刷收集的悬浮分泌物中细菌计数大于或等于10³CFU/ml可诊断无支气管内结构异常患者下呼吸道感染的细菌学病因。