Evaluation of the leukocyte esterase and nitrite urine dipstick screening tests for detection of bacteriuria in women with suspected uncomplicated urinary tract infections.

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  • H Semeniuk
  • D Church
چکیده

A positive dipstick urinalysis (i.e., leukocyte esterase test and/or nitrite test) did not reliably detect significant bacteriuria in 479 ambulatory women with suspected uncomplicated urinary tract infection; 18.9% of the urine samples that demonstrated significant bacteriuria would have been rejected by the laboratory based on a negative urinalysis screen.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Journal of clinical microbiology

دوره 37 9  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 1999