Letter to the Editor re: "Performance of flow cytometry to screen urine for bacteria and white blood cells prior to urine culture"

Clinical Biochemistry

Volumn 46, Issue 18, 2013, Pages 1914-1915

  Kulkarni, Shobhana ^a,b   Nigrin, Jana ^a,c  

^a Dynalife Diagnostic Laboratory Services   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ASYMPTOMATIC BACTERIURIA; BACTERIURIA; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE INFECTION; COLONY FORMING UNIT; DIARRHEA; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HAEMOPHILUS PARAINFLUENZAE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; INCUBATION TIME; LETTER; LEUKOCYTE; LONG TERM CARE; LOW RISK POPULATION; MICROSCOPY; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYELONEPHRITIS; PYURIA; SCREENING; TURNAROUND TIME; URINALYSIS; URINARY FREQUENCY; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; URINE CULTURE; URINE FLOWMETER; URINE INCONTINENCE;

DIAGNOSIS; FLOW CYTOMETRY; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; URINE CULTURE;

BACTERIURIA; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMANS; MALE;

EID: 84889667428     PISSN: 00099120     EISSN: 18732933     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinbiochem.2013.09.010     Document Type: Letter

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