Almost all women who exhibited symptoms of a urinary tract infection, but had a negative urine culture, actually had an infection, a small Belgian study found. The authors said that dysuria, frequency ...

Dear Doctors: I have had a UTI several times and know the symptoms. This last time, when I went to urgent care, they said they needed a urine culture before they could treat me. It was another day of ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . In most cases, a urine culture combined with empirical antibiotics is the most cost-effective strategy for UTIs, ...

October 20, 2012 (New Orleans, Louisiana) — In neonates younger than 2 months, voiding cystourethrograms (VCUGs) are not helpful in diagnosing urinary tract infection (UTI); therefore, urine culture ...

While parental reporting of malodorous urine is often indicative of urinary tract infection in young children, this is not a definitive marker of the infection, according to a recently published study ...

Urine Culture : In the past, the diagnosis of UTI was based on a quantitative urine culture yielding greater than 100,000 colony-forming units (CFU) of bacteria per milliliter of urine,termed ...

Urinary tract infections (UTIs) are common, affecting millions of people worldwide each year. Symptoms like frequent urination, burning sensation and lower abdominal pain can be a sign of a UTI, but a ...

Bad-smelling urine is a good predictor of urinary tract infection (UTI) in infants -- better than several other associated predictors, researchers found. Though malodorous urine did not definitively ...

NHS surgeon Dr Rajan warns that not all urinary infections are bacterial and antibiotics may not be necessary.