Sputum
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Accurately diagnosing a COVID-19 infection requires dedicated laboratory facilities to perform the genetic RT-PCR test on specimens of
sputum
or nasal swabs collected from suspected cases.
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They seem to just make stuff up to fit what they wanted - some things floated in space including the
sputum
and the astronaut, but the kids were totally unaffected by 0 gravity.
Indeed, the Bacille Calmette–Guérin (BCG) vaccine is almost 100 years old, while the most widely used diagnostic test, microscopic detection of bacilli in sputum, was developed 130 years ago.
Diagnosis is cheap, simple, and quick: for a few US cents, microscopic examination of a
sputum
smear can reveal the bacilli in less than 1 hour.
Indeed, no more than one in ten children with TB is diagnosed by
sputum
microscopy.
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