title: Reagent strip testing urine for significant bacteriuria in a urodynamic clinic.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To determine the effectiveness of two reagent strips in detecting significant bacteriuria amongst patients attending for urodynamic assessment.
  
  
  METHODS
  Four hundred patients undergoing urodynamic assessment were recruited for the study. Routine diagnostic catheter specimens of urine were tested for nitrite, leucocytes and protein.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The leucocytes and nitrite strips had a high specificity rate of 99.5%. The frequency of significant bacteriuria in our population was 7% (n = 28).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Culturing samples which test negative for these strips is unnecessary. Reagent strip testing of urine provides a cheap, rapid method of screening for infection.
authors.affiliation: Department of Urological Gynaecology, St Mary's Hospital, Manchester, UK.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Nunns
authors.forename: A R
authors.initials: AR
authors.lastname: Smith
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Hosker
mesh_terms: D000553:Ambulatory Care; D001437:Bacteriuria / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000382:microbiology; D006801:Humans; D011934:Reagent Strips; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D014563:Urodynamics
chemical_list: D011934:Reagent Strips