Rapid Screening of Urine Specimens for Bacteriuria by the Cellenium System

摘要

This study evaluated the performance of the Cellenium 160US urine screening system in comparison to that of the semiquantitative culture method. The performance characteristics of the Cellenium system for all clinically significant uropathogens were 89.5% sensitivity, 94.4% specificity, 97.1% negative predictive value, and 81% positive predictive value.