Urinary tract infections can occur despite sterile standard urine cultures
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Urinary tract infections can occur despite sterile standard urine cultures because routine plating methods often miss fastidious organisms, low-count pathogens, or anaerobes that are detectable by advanced molecular testing or enhanced culture techniques.
Evidence for · 6
Utility of DNA Next-Generation Sequencing and Expanded Quantitative Urine Culture in Diagnosis and Management of Chronic or Persistent Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms
2019 · cited by 48
This study discusses how standard urine cultures often fail to detect pathogens in patients with chronic lower urinary tract symptoms, requiring advanced methods like next-generation sequencing and expanded quantitative urine cultures.
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Enhanced quantitative urine culture technique, a slight modification, in detecting under-diagnosed pediatric urinary tract infection
2020 · cited by 15
This study shows that enhanced quantitative urine culture techniques detect significant uropathogens that are missed by standard urine culture protocols.
Noninferiority of Multiplex Polymerase Chain Reaction Compared to Standard Urine Culture for Urinary Tract Infection Diagnosis in Pediatric Patients at Hackensack Meridian Health Children’s Hospital Emergency Department
2024 · cited by 1
This study demonstrates that multiplex PCR detects fastidious and emerging uropathogens in patients presenting with UTI symptoms despite negative standard urine cultures.
MP34-06 THE ROLE OF MICROGENDX TESTING IN PATIENTS WITH LOWER URINARY TRACT SYMPTOMS AND NEGATIVE STANDARD URINE CULTURES
2023 · cited by 0
This clinical scenario highlights patients with lower urinary tract symptoms who present with negative standard urine cultures yet have identifiable microbes detected via advanced molecular testing.
Febrile Urinary Tract Infection With Negative Initial Urine Culture
2026 · cited by 0
This study reports that infants with febrile urinary tract infections can initially present with urine cultures below diagnostic thresholds before later testing positive during the same episode.
Urinary tract infections: Should we think about the anaerobic cocci?
2022 · cited by 0
This review highlights that standard diagnostic methods can miss fastidious organisms like anaerobic cocci that cause urinary tract infections, necessitating specialized culture techniques or molecular sequencing.