Is a Second Urine Specimen Necessary for the Diagnosis of Asymptomatic Bacteriuria?
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- 1 September 2000
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Clinical Infectious Diseases
- Vol. 31 (3) , e3-e4
- https://doi.org/10.1086/314038
Abstract
By use of pulse-field gel electrophoresis, we evaluated the molecular identity of 32 Escherichia coli isolates obtained in 2 consecutive urine cultures from 16 patients as part of a large study of asymptomatic bacteriuria in dia-betic women and found different E. coli isolates in 7 of 16 patients, meaning that nearly half (44%) of the patients who had been previously classified as having asymptomatic bacteriuria were reinfected with a different strain.Keywords
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