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Evaluation of the Urotest AB antibacterial substance detection test
J M Blondeau1, Y Yaschuk, D Galenzoski
1Division of Microbiology, St Paul's (Grey Nuns') Hospital, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada.
Journal of Clinical Pathology
|November 1, 1994
Abstract:
The Urotest AB was used to detect antimicrobial substances in urine samples. Of 1022 urine specimens evaluated, Urotest AB detected inhibitors in 38.9%. Of 159 urine specimens from patients thought to be taking an antibiotic, inhibitors were detected in 80.5%. This test may help to explain culture negative urine samples from symptomatic patients, and could help elucidate treatment failures and the epidemiology of antibiotic resistance.