Quantitative Urinalysis: Diagnosing Urinary Tract Infection in Men

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association

Volumn 236, Issue 18, 1976, Pages 2069-2072

  Musher, Daniel M ^a   Thorsteinsson, Sigurdur B ^b   Airola, Virgil M ^c  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Department of Medicine University College of Medicine ^*  (Iceland)

^c SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL COUNT; DIAGNOSIS; IN VITRO STUDY; LEUKOCYTURIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METHODOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; THEORETICAL STUDY; URINALYSIS; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

ADULT; AGED; BACTERIURIA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; PYURIA; SEX FACTORS; SPECIMEN HANDLING; URINARY CATHETERIZATION; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS; URINE;

EID: 0017142540     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.1976.03270190025022     Document Type: Article

References (19)

1. Alwall N: Pyuria: Deposit in high-power microscopic field—WBC/hpf—versus WBC/mm3 in counting chamber. Acta Med Scand 194:537-540, 1973.
2. Stansfeld JM: The measurement and meaning of pyuria. Arch Dis Child 37:257-262, 1962.
3. Houston IB: Pus cell and bacterial counts in the diagnosis of urinary tract infections in childhood. Arch Dis Child 38:600-605, 1963.
4. Gadeholt H: Quantitative estimation of urinary sediment, with special regard to sources of error. Br Med J 1:1547-1549, 1964.
5. Fairley KF, Barraclough M: Leucocyte-excretion rate as a screening test for bacteriuria. Lancet 1:420-421, 1967.
6. Brumfitt W: Urinary cell counts and their value. J Clin Path 18:550-555, 1965.
7. Kass EH: Bacteriuria and the diagnosis of infections of the urinary tract. Arch Intern Med 100:709-714, 1957.
8. Alwall N, Lohi A: A population study on renal and urinary tract diseases: II. Urinary deposits, bacteriuria and ESR on screening and medical examination of selected cases. Acta Med Scand 194:529-535, 1973.
9. Pryles CV, Eliot CR: Pyuria and bacteriuria in infants and children. Am J Dis Child 110:628-635, 1965.
10. Robins DG, Rogers KB, White RHR, et al: Urine microscopy as an aid to detection of bacteriuria. Lancet 1:476-478, 1975.
11. Alwall N, Lohi A: A population study on renal and urinary tract diseases: III. A diagnostic dilemma: Occurrence of pyuria and bacteriuria in conventional and clean-voided midstream specimens and suprapubic urine. Acta Med Scand 194:541-547, 1973.
12. Prescott LF: The normal urinary excretion rates of renal tubular cells, leucocytes, and red blood cells. Clin Sci 31:425-435, 1966.
13. Little PJ: A comparison of the urinary white cell concentration with the white cell excretion rate. Br J Urol 36:360-363, 1964.
14. Gadeholt H: Quantitative estimation of cells in urine. Acta Med Scand 183:369-374, 1968.
15. Mabeck CE: Studies in urinary tract infections: IV. Urinary leucocyte excretion in bacteriuria. Acta Med Scand 186:193-198, 1969.
16. O'Grady FW, Charlton CAC, Fry IK, et al: Natural history of intractable 'cystitis' in women referred to a special clinic, in Brumfitt W, Asscher AW (eds): Urinary Tract Infections. Oxford, England, Oxford University Press, 1973, pp 81-91.
17. Kunin CM: Detection, Prevention and Management of Urinary Tract Infections. Philadelphia, Lea & Febiger, 1974, p 28.
18. Gonik P, Falkner B, Schwartz A, et al: Bacteriuria in the catheterized patient: Cystitis or pyelonephritis. JAMA 233:253-255, 1975.
19. Barbin GK, Thorley JD, Reinarz JA: Localization of Bacteriuria. Read before the 15th Interscience Conference Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, September 1975.