Screening for urinary tract infection using Bac-T-Screen bacteriuria device.
The Bac-T-Screen was used to process 795 urine specimens. Tests for urine specimens took slightly more than two minutes. The Bac-T-Screen predicted with 99 per cent accuracy if a specimen was negative for bacteriuria or pyuria. Thus, approximately one half of all carefully collected urine specimens need no further laboratory culture. In addition, the Bac-T-Screen detected bacteriuria with a sensitivity of 96 per cent at the 10(5) CFU/ml level of probability. Pyuria (1 +) was detected with a sensitivity of 98 per cent. The Bac-T-Screen can be used in an office practice as well as in the clinical laboratory.
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D001437:Bacteriuria / Q000175:diagnosis*; D005188:False Negative Reactions; D005189:False Positive Reactions; D006801:Humans; D011776:Pyuria / Q000175:diagnosis*; D014556:Urine / Q000032:analysis*