Is a second urine specimen necessary for the diagnosis of asymptomatic bacteriuria?

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  • S E Geerlings
  • E C Brouwer
  • W Gaastra
  • A I Hoepelman
چکیده

By use of pulse-field gel electrophoresis, we evaluated the molecular identity of 32 Escherichia coli isolates obtained in 2 consecutive urine cultures from 16 patients as part of a large study of asymptomatic bacteriuria in diabetic women and found different E. coli isolates in 7 of 16 patients, meaning that nearly half (44%) of the patients who had been previously classified as having asymptomatic bacteriuria were reinfected with a different strain.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America

دوره 31 3  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2000