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A third of controls with negative cultures, however, were also positive for M tuberculosis complex.

However, women with negative cultures may still improve with antibiotic treatment.

We even treated for typhoid, with either tetracycline or chloramphenicol, despite the negative cultures.

Treatment with azoles results in relief of symptoms and negative cultures in 80-90% of patients who complete therapy.

She paused, thinking about Scotty Braxton's negative cultures.

Even if sputum smear is negative, tuberculosis must be considered and is only excluded after negative cultures.

A negative culture on Thayer-Martin in a patient exhibiting symptoms of pelvic inflammatory disease most likely indicates an infection with Chlamydia trachomatis.

Tozzer argued that the Maya ruled between these three waves of violence and negative culture, and that this creates the dichotomy within Chichen Itza architecture.

A negative culture could suggest a viral infection, infection with other typical bacterium such as Haemophilus influenzae, or an infection with an atypical bacterial organism like Mycoplasma.

Drug susceptibility tests should be repeated if sputum cultures remain positive for M. tuberculosis after 3 months of treatment or become positive after 1 month or longer of negative cultures (308).

Reporters who closely follow TV news observed that a large number of current and former ABC News staffers went online to vigorously respond that Gurbst had helped perpetuate a negative culture with ABC News.

In a study including 78 children with pleural empyema, the causative micro-organism could be identified using direct culture of fresh pleural fluid in 45% of patients, with an additional 28% using PCR on pleural fluid of negative cultures.

Around the same time, in an unusual public outburst, Gordon M. Bethune, chief executive of Continental Airlines and a former Boeing executive who is close to Mr. Woodard, said he was upset by what he called a new "negative culture" at Boeing.

In addition to monitoring clinical response, mycologic response in patients with CNS cryptococcosis typically is assessed by a repeat lumbar puncture and CSF examination at 2 weeks of treatment, with continuation of induction therapy if the culture is positive until negative cultures are obtained.

Monthly sputum cultures reveal intermittent negative cultures in spite of continuous colonization by the same isolate proven by molecular typing, indicating that the organism is present in spite of negative cultures of sputum [ 32 ] (and authors unpublished observations).