title: The urometer as a reservoir of infectious organisms.
abstract: With the aid of epidemiologic tools such as serotyping and bacteriocin typing, organisms involved in hospital-acquired infections were traced to their hospital reservoir. One of these reservoirs was an instrument used to measure specific gravity of urine, the urometer.
mesh_terms: D001419:Bacteria; D003428:Cross Infection / Q000635:transmission*; D004197:Disease Reservoirs; D011550:Pseudomonas aeruginosa / Q000302:isolation & purification; D012706:Serratia marcescens / Q000302:isolation & purification; D014572:Urology / Q000295:instrumentation*