title: Screening for bacteriuria in Japanese school children.
abstract: Bacteriuria was screened among 28,202 healthy school children, 14,575 boys and 13,627 girls, by dipstick and dipslide methods and also by pour plate culture. The prevalence of bacteriuria was 0.06% in boys and 0.52% in girls after the third screening. A high rate of false negative results with the dipstick test and a high rate of false positive results with the dipslide culture method using Microstix-3 were observed. About 60% of screened children continued to have bacteriuria persistently for 9 months after the third screening, which was followed by monthly urine cultures. Anomalies of the urinary tract were detected in 9 of 26 children with persistent bacteriuria.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatrics, Kitasato University School of Medicine, Japan.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Iitaka
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Sakai
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Oyama
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Izawa
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Igarashi
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001437:Bacteriuria / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan / Q000453:epidemiology; D008297:Male; D008403:Mass Screening / Q000379:methods*; D011237:Predictive Value of Tests; D015995:Prevalence