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Comment
. 2016 May;54(5):1189-90.
doi: 10.1128/JCM.00370-16. Epub 2016 Mar 9.

Complicated Urinary Tract Infections: What's a Lab To Do?

Stephen M Brecher  1
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Complicated Urinary Tract Infections: What's a Lab To Do?

Stephen M Brecher. J Clin Microbiol. 2016 May.

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.

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