Published in
Elsevier, Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease, 2(77), p. 99-100, 2013
DOI: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2013.06.022
Links
Tools
Evaluation of the Gram stain of sputa from cystic fibrosis patients to predict the presence of Staphylococcus aureus
Journal article published in 2013 by
Leandro Reus Rodrigues Perez,
Cícero Armídio Gomes Dias 
This paper is available in a repository.
Full text: Download
Published version:
archiving forbidden
Data provided by 
Abstract
We evaluated the presence of Gram-positive cocci in cluster, seen in Gram-stained smears of cystic fibrosis (CF) sputa versus the microbiological culture for the prediction of the presence of S. aureus. Gram stain provided low accuracy (69.2%; odds ratio, 4.8; 95% confidence interval, 61.3-76.1) for predicting S. aureus in CF sputum.