Is a second urine specimen necessary for the diagnosis of asymptomatic bacteriuria?
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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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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America
دوره 31 3 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2000