Hoppe J E, Holzwarth I, Stern M
Section of Bacteriology, University Children's Hospital, Eberhard Karl University, Tübingen, Germany.
Zentralbl Bakteriol. 1997 Nov;286(4):468-71. doi: 10.1016/s0934-8840(97)80048-5.
Ambulatory cystic fibrosis patients often submit sputum specimens by post. This study addressed the question if and how postal transport affects the microbiological results of sputum cultures from these patients. Thirty-two fresh sputa and 32 next-day sputa posted from home were cultured qualitatively and quantitatively. The numbers of isolates of potentially pathogenic species and the mean numbers of colony-forming units of these isolates grown from parallel specimens were statistically not different. It is concluded that-under the conditions of this study-postal transport of sputa from cystic fibrosis patients does not decrease the microbiological yield.
非住院囊性纤维化患者常通过邮寄方式提交痰标本。本研究探讨了邮寄运输是否以及如何影响这些患者痰培养的微生物学结果这一问题。对32份从家中邮寄的新鲜痰液和32份次日痰液进行了定性和定量培养。潜在致病菌种的分离株数量以及从平行标本中培养出的这些分离株的平均菌落形成单位数量在统计学上无差异。得出的结论是——在本研究条件下——囊性纤维化患者痰液的邮寄运输不会降低微生物学检测结果。
