A Study on Clinical Correlation of Different Colony Counts from Urine Culture.

摘要

ABSTRACT Urinary tract infection (UTI) is the most common infection affecting population irrespective of the age and it accounts for approximately 40% of the hospital acquired infections. Urine cultures from patients with symptomatic UTI usually show >105 CFU/mL of urine, whereas asymptomatic patients whose cultures have been contaminated usually show < 103 CFU/mL of urine. This study aims to find out any association between low colony count and clinical symptoms so that rationale use of antibi.