"Sputum" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
Material coughed up from the lungs and expectorated via the mouth. It contains MUCUS, cellular debris, and microorganisms. It may also contain blood or pus.
| Descriptor ID |
D013183
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| MeSH Number(s) |
A12.200.808
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| Concept/Terms |
Sputum, Induced- Sputum, Induced
- Induced Sputum
- Induced Sputums
- Sputums, Induced
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Sputum" by people in this website by year, and whether "Sputum" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1996 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2001 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2002 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2003 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2004 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2005 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2006 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2008 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2009 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| 2010 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2011 | 1 | 4 | 5 |
| 2012 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 2013 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 2014 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 2015 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2016 | 0 | 5 | 5 |
| 2017 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| 2018 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2019 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2020 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2021 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2022 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2023 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2024 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 2025 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Sputum" by people in Profiles.
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Rapid tuberculosis diagnosis from respiratory or blood samples by a low cost, portable lab-in-tube assay. Sci Transl Med. 2025 Apr 09; 17(793):eadp6411.
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The molecular bacterial load assay predicts treatment responses in patients with pre-XDR/XDR-tuberculosis more accurately than GeneXpert Ultra MTB/Rif. J Infect. 2025 Feb; 90(2):106399.
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Host DNA depletion on frozen human respiratory samples enables successful metagenomic sequencing for microbiome studies. Commun Biol. 2024 Nov 28; 7(1):1590.
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Pf bacteriophage is associated with decline in lung function in a longitudinal cohort of patients with cystic fibrosis and Pseudomonas airway infection. J Cyst Fibros. 2025 Mar; 24(2):345-352.
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Parallel use of low-complexity automated nucleic acid amplification tests on respiratory samples and stool with or without lateral flow lipoarabinomannan assays to detect pulmonary tuberculosis disease in children. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2024 05 13; 5:CD016071.
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Performance of a stool-based quantitative PCR assay for the diagnosis of tuberculosis in adolescents and adults: a multinational, prospective diagnostic accuracy study. Lancet Microbe. 2024 May; 5(5):e433-e441.
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Update on the diagnosis of tuberculosis. Clin Microbiol Infect. 2024 Sep; 30(9):1115-1122.
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Approach to non-type 2 asthma. Respir Med. 2023 09; 216:107327.
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Discordance between semi-quantitative nucleic acid detection of bacteria and quantitative bacteriology in sputum from patients with pneumonia. J Infect. 2023 06; 86(6):607-609.
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Xpert MTB/RIF Ultra assay for tuberculosis disease and rifampicin resistance in children. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2022 09 06; 9:CD013359.