title: Complicated Urinary Tract Infections: What's a Lab To Do?
abstract: The article by Price et al. in this issue (T. K. Price et al., J Clin Microbiol 54:1216-1222, 2016, http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/JCM.00044-16) advocates for the use of a larger inoculum when culturing urine obtained by "in-and-out" catheterization in a selected female population. Their findings and the resulting challenges will afford clinical microbiologists and specialty physicians an opportunity to review what will or should be done with the additional microbiological culture data.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, VA Boston HealthCare System, West Roxbury, Massachusetts, USA Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, USA stephen.brecher@va.gov.
authors.forename: Stephen M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Brecher
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D014552:Urinary Tract Infections