Urine culture collected from gel-based diapers: Developing a novel experimental laboratory method
Urinary tract infection diagnosis is based on urine culture, taken from a midstream collection. Obtaining samples in this manner is difficult in elderly patients suffering from incontinence and in infants. (1) Develop a method for urine collection using gel-based diapers and (2) compare culture resu...
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Published in | Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine Vol. 17; no. 2; pp. 91 - 95 |
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Main Authors | , |
Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
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United States
01.03.2004
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Summary: | Urinary tract infection diagnosis is based on urine culture, taken from a midstream collection. Obtaining samples in this manner is difficult in elderly patients suffering from incontinence and in infants.
(1) Develop a method for urine collection using gel-based diapers and (2) compare culture results from gel-based diapers with those of the same urine, examined by accepted methods.
Urine was collected and cultured by standard bacteriologic techniques at the microbiology laboratory of Soroka Medical Center, Beer-Sheva, Israel. Gel-based diapers were manually dampened with the same urine samples, and samples from diapers were cultured 0 to 3 hours after dampening.
Comparison showed good correlation between direct urine cultures and cultures obtained from gel based diapers (R = 1.000). Total sensitivity was 100% and specificity 97%.
(1) Urine can be cultured from gel-based diapers and (2) a larger sample of in vivo trials will be needed to make this technique clinically applicable in an outpatient setting. |
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ISSN: | 0893-8652 1557-2625 1544-8770 1558-7118 |
DOI: | 10.3122/jabfm.17.2.91 |