title: [Predictive value of reactive strips in urinary infection].
abstract: The microbiologic method to confirm or not the diagnosis of urinary tract infection is usually the culture and Gram-stain of the clean-catch midstream urine. Nevertheless, this is a costly and time-consuming method. We tried to evaluate the positive and negative predictive value of the nitrite and leucocyte-esterase reactive strips as an alternative method. When both the two parameters are negative it is fairly safe to exclude the urinary tract infection.
authors.affiliation: Laboratório de Patologia Clínica, Departamento de Microbiologia, Hospital Garcia de Orta, Almada.
authors.forename: M F
authors.initials: MF
authors.lastname: Pinto
authors.forename: C M
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Silva
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D011237:Predictive Value of Tests; D011934:Reagent Strips; D014552:Urinary Tract Infections / Q000175:diagnosis*
chemical_list: D011934:Reagent Strips