Performance assessment of urine flow cytometry (UFC) to screen urines to reflex to culture in immunocompetent and immunosuppressed hosts.

CONCLUSIONS: UFC is a rapid and sensitive method to screen out urine samples that will subsequently be negative and to reflex urines to culture that will subsequently grow. UFC results are available within 1 h from receipt and enable the elimination of culture when the set threshold is not met.
PMID: 28869004 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Journal of Medical Microbiology - September 4, 2017 Category: Microbiology Authors: Stefanovic A, Roscoe D, Ranasinghe R, Wong T, Bryce E, Porter C, Lim A, Grant J, Ng K, Pudek M Tags: J Med Microbiol Source Type: research