Table 3.

Microbiological findings in BALF from patients with and without symptoms of lung infection

Grouped microbiological findings	No infection n (%)	Signs of infection n (%)	P‐value
Gram‐positive bacteria	70 (44)	41 (36)	0.20
Gram‐negative bacteria	64 (40)	48 (43)	0.71
Yeast	30 (19)	36 (32)	0.01
Mold	43 (27)	28 (25)	0.41
Virus	22 (14)	18 (16)	0.48

Samples from patients with positive microbiology and no infection (n total = 159) vs samples from patients with signs of lung infection (n total = 113) within defined microbiological groups. Owing to bronchoscopies with several microbiological findings in BALF the figures do not sum up to 100%.

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