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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, Andrew, Worster, Daren, Lin   +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, Ruth Seidenberg, Sabine K Schuh, Aristomenis K Exadaktylos, Clyde B Schechter, Alexander B Leichtle, Wolf E Hautz   +6 more
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Urine Flow Cytometry Parameter Cannot Safely Predict Contamination of Urine—A Cohort Study of a Swiss Emergency Department Using Machine Learning Techniques

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, Nadine Sägesser, Peter M. Keller, Spyridon Arampatzis, Benedict Steffens, Simone Ehrhard, Alexander B. Leichtle   +6 more
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Impact of provider-selected indication requirement on urine test utilization and positivity

Antimicrobial Stewardship & Healthcare Epidemiology, 2022
Objective: To evaluate the impact of the addition of an indication specification requirement to isolated urine-culture ordering on testing utilization.
Jessica A. Penney, Angie Mae Rodday, Paola Sebastiani, David R. Snydman, Shira I. Doron   +4 more
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Comparison of a Chromogenic Urine Culture Plate System (UTid+) and Conventional Urine Culture for Canine and Feline Specimens

Veterinary Sciences, 2022
In companion animal medicine, urinary tract infection (UTI) is one of the most common indications for antimicrobial therapy. Definitive diagnosis of UTI requires isolation of bacteria with routine urine culture from an animal with concurrent clinical ...
Stephen D. Cole, Maya Swiderski, Jaclyn Dietrich, Kathryn M. McGonigle   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Test Characteristics of Urinary Lipoarabinomannan and Predictors of Mortality among Hospitalized HIV-Infected Tuberculosis Suspects in Tanzania. [PDF]

, 2012
Tuberculosis is the most common cause of death among patients with HIV infection living in tuberculosis endemic countries, but many cases are not diagnosed pre-mortem. We assessed the test characteristics of urinary lipoarabinomannan (LAM) and predictors
C Dye, CF von Reyn, CF von Reyn, CR Gounder, EL Corbett, Elizabeth Talbot, Fordham von Reyn, I Krasnow, J Eng, J Minion, J Peter, M Daffe, M Shah, Mecky Matee, Michael Alan Polis, Muhammad Bakari, P Whiting, Patricia Munseri, Pedro Teixeira, PJ Munseri, PM Bossuyt, RE Lee, S Lockman, Timothy Lahey   +23 more
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Prevalence of signs of lower urinary tract disease and positive urine culture in dogs with diabetes mellitus: A retrospective study

Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine, 2023
Background No recent studies have evaluated the association between clinical signs of lower urinary tract disease (LUTD) and positive urine culture in dogs with diabetes mellitus.
Valerie Nelson, Amy Downey, Stacie Summers, Sarah Shropshire   +3 more
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Diagnosis of bacterial urinary tract infection: Utility of urine myeloperoxidase concentration to predict urine culture results in dogs.

PLoS ONE, 2020
Suspected bacterial urinary tract infections (UTI) are a common cause of overuse and misuse of antimicrobials. A bedside diagnostic test that could accurately predict urine culture results would prevent antimicrobial overuse, but accurate biomarkers have
Jillian Myers Smith, Courtney Thomason, Xiaocun Sun, Elizabeth M Lennon   +3 more
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Optimization of DNA extraction from human urinary samples for mycobiome community profiling. [PDF]

, 2019
IntroductionRecent data suggest the urinary tract hosts a microbial community of varying composition, even in the absence of infection. Culture-independent methodologies, such as next-generation sequencing of conserved ribosomal DNA sequences, provide an
Ackerman, A Lenore, Ackerman, James E, Anger, Jennifer Tash, Freeman, Michael R, Khalique, Muhammad Umair, Kim, Jayoung, NIH Multidisciplinary Approach to the Study of Chronic Pelvic Pain (MAPP), Tang, Jie, Underhill, David M   +8 more
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Inpatient urine cultures are frequently performed without urinalysis or microscopy: Findings from a large academic medical center [PDF]

, 2017
OBJECTIVETo describe the frequency of urine cultures performed in inpatients without additional testing for pyuriaDESIGNRetrospective cohort studySETTINGA 1,250-bed academic tertiary referral centerPATIENTSHospitalized adultsMETHODSThis study included ...
Carson, Abigail L, Jackups, Ronald, McMullen, Kathleen M, Munigala, Satish, Russo, Anthony J, Warren, David K, Wood, Helen   +6 more
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