Urinary tract infections (UTI) are commonly diagnosed and treated in primary care. The gold standard for diagnosing a UTI is a urine culture. However, waiting for culture results delays treatment ...

In a urinalysis, the presence of bacteria and elevated white blood cell levels in the urine usually indicate a UTI. Further tests may be necessary if you have a history of other urinary conditions.

October 20, 2012 (New Orleans, Louisiana) — In neonates younger than 2 months, voiding cystourethrograms (VCUGs) are not helpful in diagnosing urinary tract infection (UTI); therefore, urine ...

SAN FRANCISCO — In this video from IDWeek, Sonali Advani, MBBS, MPH, assistant professor of infectious diseases at the Yale School of Medicine and associate hospital epidemiologist at Yale-New ...

Over half of people with vaginas will get a urinary tract infection (UTI) at some point in their lives, but even more experience symptoms of one. Sometimes, people will have all the telltale signs ...

DispatchHealth and Pathnostics Initiate Clinical Study to Compare Guidance UTI® Test to Standard Urine Culture Among ... 6,800 U.S. patients who are suspected of urinary tract infections ...

Urine culture is the standard for the diagnosis of a UTI, but at least 18 h are needed for detection of bacterial growth and up to 48–72 h until the final result and susceptibilities are available.

Algorithm predicts urinary tract infection without microscopy Gurpreet Dhanda, ... Pathogenic urine culture growing ≥100,000 colony-forming units was the primary outcome, ...

They are among the most common outpatient infections in the United States, causing more than 8.1 million visits to healthcare professionals each year. They are more common in females. A UTI occurs ...

Leukocytes are white blood cells that help protect people from infection. They are not usually present in the urine, so when they are, it can indicate an infection. Learn more here.