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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Infect. 2009 May 23;59(1):49–55. doi: 10.1016/j.jinf.2009.05.004

Table 2.

Bronchoalveolar lavage cellularity in P. aeruginosa ventilator-associated pneumonia

Day 1 Day 4 Day 8
TTSS+ TTSS− TTSS+ TTSS− TTSS+ TTSS−
BALF recovery (%) 76 68 66 71 73 67
Total BAL cell count (× 105/ml BAL) 36±1.4 29±1.1 25±0.4 18±1.1 17.2±0.5 11±0.8
Neutrophils (%) 87 83 67 28 34 16