Urinalysis and bacterial culture
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Urinalysis and bacterial culture - Investigations
- Requesting emergency tests depending on the availability of laboratory services
- Selection of investigations according to the suspected illness
- Other basic chemical investigations
- Patient guidance
- Urine samples: methods of collecting single-voided specimens
- Sample storage and transport
- References
- Haematuria
- Chronic prostatitis
Bacterial meningitis is infrequently predicted by positive urinalysis in infants younger than 2 months- The rate of concomitant bacterial meningitis in infants with urinary tract infection is 0.25%
- Increased blood creatinine concentration, eGFR and renal function tests
- Risk of serious bacterial infection low in recently immunized febrile infants
- Diarrhoea and vomiting in children
- Negative leukocyte esterase and < 5 white blood cells/high-powered field best rule out urinary tract infection; positive nitrite best rules it in
- Urinary tract infections
- Arthritis in children
- Interpretation of urine test results in children
- Infective endocarditis
- Prolonged fever of unknown origin in children
- Schmutz in the urine contaminates culture results
- Urinary frequency (pollakiuria) and nocturia
- Bleeding during first and second trimesters of pregnancy
- Erythema nodosum
- Urinary tract infection in a child
- Elevated ESR (hypersedimentation)
- Clinical examination of patients with joint inflammation in primary health care
- Fever in a returning traveller
- An unconscious patient