PURPOSE Chlamydia trachomatis and Mycoplasma hominis, Mycoplasma genitalium, and Ureaplasma urealyticum are associated with various diseases of the urogenital tract, but they are usually not detected by routine microbiological diagnosis. To determine the occurrence of Chlamydia trachomatis, Mycoplasma hominis, Mycoplasma genitalium, and Ureaplasma urealyticum in patients with sterile pyuria. ...

PURPOSE Acute epididymitis is considered to have an important role in children with scrotal pain. Recent reports have shown that urinalysis is not helpful for the diagnosis and treatment of acute epididymitis owing to negative microbiological findings. Therefore, we analyzed clinical and laboratory characteristics to examine the diagnostic yield of urinalysis in children. MATERIALS AND METHOD...

A multicenter study was performed to evaluate the ability of the URISCREEN (Analytab Products, Plainview, N.Y.), a 2-min catalase tube test, to detect bacteriuria and pyuria. This test was compared with the Chemstrip LN (BioDynamics, Division of Boehringer Mannheim Diagnostics, Indianapolis, Ind.), a 2-min enzyme dipstick test; a semiquantitative plate culture method was used as the reference t...

OBJECTIVES (1) To determine frequency of urinary tract infection among pyuric diabetic patients. (2) To determine sterile pyuria frequency among pyuric diabetic patients. (3) To determine factors predisposing to urinary tract infection. METHODS This is a non randomized, prospective observational study done in tertiary care set up of Dow University of Health Sciences, Karachi. Data collection ...

Cystoscopy is one of the most commonly performed urological procedures with purpose to inspect lower urinary tract anatomy and evaluation symptoms as well various pathologies urethra, prostate bladder. The procedure carried out by inserting an optical instrument (cytoscope) into urethra Currently, no antibiotic prophylaxis has been recommended for routine flexible cystoscopy, except in high ris...

Abstract Background Patients with sterile pyuria may be infected sexually transmitted diseases or have renal tuberculosis. This study investigated the possibility of detecting and Mycobacterial tuberculosis in samples polymerase chain reaction. Methods Forty-four day-3 negative urine culture were for presence Results Among 44 samples, 61.4% positive by reaction (PCR) bacterial DNA (either Mycob...