The Utility of Urine Cultures in Predicting Blood Culture Susceptibilities in Patients with Bacteremic Urinary Tract Infection.

The Utility of Urine Cultures in Predicting Blood Culture Susceptibilities in Patients with Bacteremic Urinary Tract Infection.
Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2018 Oct 15;:
Authors: Lam PW, Wiggers JB, Lo J, MacFadden DR, Daneman N
Abstract
In a review of 428 patients with bacteremic urinary tract infection, urine culture susceptibility results accurately predicted blood culture results when the same organism was isolated from both cultures. Early targeted therapy using urine culture results can potentially reduce broad-spectrum antibiotic exposure, its associated adverse effects, and length of hospitalization.
PMID: 30323048 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy - October 15, 2018 Category: Microbiology Authors: Lam PW, Wiggers JB, Lo J, MacFadden DR, Daneman N Tags: Antimicrob Agents Chemother Source Type: research