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Frontiers in Urology, 2023 Diagnosis and treatment of urinary tract infections (UTIs) remains stagnant. The presumption that a patient either has a UTI or does not (binary choice) is inappropriately simplistic. Laboratory diagnostic tests have not advanced for decades. The goal of
L. Brubaker +5 more
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Scientific Reports, 2023 Retrograde intrarenal surgery (RIRS) is one of the main surgical methods for upper urinary calculi, but severe complications of infection may occur after surgery.
Miaomiao Yang, Yongchao Li, Fang Huang
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Clinical relevance of expanded quantitative urine culture in health and disease
Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, 2023 “Expanded quantitative urine culture (EQUC)” is an enhanced culture protocol for the detection of viable microbes in urine specimens. Using a large volume of urine and different sets of cultural conditions, EQUC is able to uncover a wide range of ...
N. Deen +3 more
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Reducing unnecessary urine culture testing in residents of long term care facilities
British medical journal, 2023 • Asymptomatic bacteriuria is a positive result from a urine culture test in the absence of minimum symptoms of urinary tract infection, and is present in 30-50% of residents in long term care homes • Indiscriminate testing leads to detection of ...
K. Piggott, J. Trimble, J. Leis
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European Urology Open Science, 2022 Take Home Message Molecular diagnostics are significantly more sensitive in detecting urinary bacteria in adults with urinary tract infection (UTI) than culture.
Alec Szlachta-McGinn +5 more
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Scientific Reports, 2022 To study the relationship between preoperative urine culture, bacterial species and infection after percutaneous nephrolithotomy in patients with upper urinary tract stones, and summarize the clinical characteristics of different bacterial infections ...
Zesong Yang +8 more
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Interpreting positive urine cultures [PDF]
Canadian Medical Association Journal, 2013 On behalf of emergency physicians at Hamilton Health Sciences, we are compelled to respond to an article[1][1] that appeared in the practice section of CMAJ . In a survey of our colleagues, 29 out of 30 respondents believed that the patient in the article by Vaisman and colleagues[1][1] had ...
Margaret J, Ackerman +2 more
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The development and validation of different decision-making tools to predict urine culture growth out of urine flow cytometry parameter. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 Patients presenting with suspected urinary tract infection are common in every day emergency practice. Urine flow cytometry has replaced microscopic urine evaluation in many emergency departments, but interpretation of the results remains challenging ...
Martin Müller +6 more
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Prevalence and predictors of urine culture contamination in primary care: A cross-sectional study.
International Journal of Nursing Studies, 2022 BACKGROUND Antimicrobial resistance is a global health threat. To slow resistance and preserve antibiotics, stewardship interventions are increasingly promoted and mandated.
Michael A. Hansen +13 more
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Diagnostics, 2022 Background: Urine flow cytometry (UFC) analyses urine samples and determines parameter counts. We aimed to predict different types of urine culture growth, including mixed growth indicating urine culture contamination.
Martin Müller +6 more
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