Urine is not sterile: use of enhanced urine culture techniques to detect resident bacterial flora in the adult female bladder. J Clin Microbiol 2014;52:871-6.Hilt EE, McKinley K, Pearc MM, Rosenfeld AB, Zilliox MJ, Mueller ER, et al. Urine is not sterile: use of enhanced urine ...
It is derived from the Greek words ouron meaning urine and skopeo meaning to behold, contemplate, examine, or inspect. Such analysis of the urine has been historically called uroscopy until the 17th century, and now it is called “urinalysis.”2....
(blood agar plates) and identification and quantitation of each morphologically distinct and separate colony (CNA/MAC plates). If ≥3 pathogens were present without a predominant species, results were reported as contaminated/mixed flora. Pathogen identification was confirmed via the VITEK 2 Compact ...