TABLE 3.

BAL sample bacterial species identified by clonal analysis but not by the culture-based method used by the clinical microbiology laboratory

Subject no.	Bacterial species
02	Haemophilus influenzae
03	Dialister pneumosintes
12	Escherichia coli/Shigella flexneri
	Shigella boydii
	Streptococcus mitis/pneumoniae
16	Neisseria meningitidis/polysaccharea
18	Pseudomonas fluorescens
	Haemophilus influenzae
21	Streptococcus mitis/pneumoniae
23	Streptococcus mitis/pneumoniae
24	Streptococcus mitis/pneumoniae
28	Haemophilus influenzae
	Streptococcus mitis/pneumoniae