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Urinary Tract Infection
Urinary Tract Infection
Diagnostic testing:
Urinanalysis of the
centrifugated urin sediment:
upper limit: 5-10 WBC/ high
power field on microscope
evalutaion
The presence of WBC casts is
indicative for uper tract
infection
Dipstick test for nitrit is highly
specific for infection
Urin culture: sign. bacteriuria
defined as more than 105/ml of
a single organism in culture of
a clean-catch midstream urine
specimen