AMRITSAR: The civil health authorities here have failed to provide a special container for sending the sputum sample of SARS suspect Partap Singh to National Institute of Communicable Diseases (NICD).

A sputum stain for Mycobacteria is a laboratory test performed on a sample of your sputum, or phlegm. It’s also known as an acid-fast bacillus (AFB) stain or a tuberculosis (TB) smear. A doctor ...

Indications : The test is ordered to identify the causative organism, when a patient presents with chronic upper respiratory tract infection. For the test, sputum located deep in the airways or throat ...

A sputum culture is a sample of the gooey substance that often comes up from your chest when you have an infection in your lungs or airways. It is mostly made up of white blood cells that fight ...