introduction: ureaplasma uriealyticum is one of the most important causes of nongonococcal and nonspecific urethritis (ngu & nsu) in men. mycoplasma hominis too has a causal role in ngu & nsu. this study aimed to investigate whether it is possible to detect mycoplasma hominis and ureaplasma uriealyticum in first voided urine samples in men suffering from ngu & nsu without complaints of urethral...

The EZ Streak urine culture device (Difco Laboratories, Detroit, Mich.) combines the advantages of both the dip-slide and the classic urine culture technique, enabling bacterial enumeration and isolation following a simple inoculation step. Five hundred clean-catch urine specimens submitted by outpatients attending a health maintenance organization were used to compare the EZ Streak with cultur...

Actinobaculum was isolated from urine only after prolonged incubation in 5% CO(2) after discrepancy between urine Gram stain and initial culture results was observed. Additional patients were diagnosed using this method. The prevalence of Actinobaculum species in urinary tract infections is underestimated since it is not isolated by routine urine culture procedures.

BACKGROUND It has been suggested that diseases that promote isosthenuria predispose to urinary tract infections because of a lack of the common bacteriostatic properties present in concentrated urine. OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to assess the clinicopathologic risk factors for positive urine culture outcome in cats with chronic kidney disease (CKD), diabetes mellitus (DM), uncont...

The ability to isolate and identify causative agents of urinary tract infections relies primarily on the quality of the urine sample that is submitted to the microbiology. The most important factors are the method of collection, the maintenance of viability of the potential pathogens during transport, and standardization of the culturing of the urine sample. This report is a composite of severa...