Diagnostic value of various urine tests in the Jordanian population with urinary tract infection

Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 40, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 1048-1051

  Al Daghistani, Hala I ^a   Abdel Dayem, Mana ^a  

^a AL BALQA APPLIED UNIVERSITY   (Jordan)

Author keywords

Microscopic examination; Urinary tract infection (UTI).; Urine culture; Urine dipsticks

Indexed keywords

ESTERASE; NITRITE REDUCTASE; CARBOXYLESTERASE; LEUKOCYTE ESTERASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BACTERIURIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; JORDAN; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROSCOPY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PYURIA; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; URINALYSIS; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; URINE CULTURE; BACTERIAL COUNT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; STANDARD; URINE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; JORDANIA;

CARBOXYLIC ESTER HYDROLASES; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; HUMANS; JORDAN; MALE; NITRITE REDUCTASES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; URINALYSIS; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS;

EID: 0036431465     PISSN: 14346621     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/CCLM.2002.183     Document Type: Article

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