Screening of urine samples by flow cytometry reduces the need for culture

Infectious Disease News & Articles - MDLinx: "Samples considered positive for UTI in culture had significantly higher bacteria and WBC values by flow cytometry than samples considered negative. The flow cytometric screening worked best when both bacteria and WBC counts were used with age and gender specific cut–off values for all patient groups excluding patients with urological disease or anomaly. By using these cut–off values, 5/167 of culture positive samples were missed by UF–500i and the percentage of samples that did not need to be cultured was 64.5 %."