Question

Evaluation of microscopic screening methods for detection of urinary tract infection

Answer 1

The study was conducted to evaluate the accuracy, cost and turnaround time of wet mount, gram stain and acridine orange stain microscopy of quantitative unspun urine for screening of urine samples. The combination of wet mount and gram stain and wet mount and acridine orange stain was also evaluated. Materials and Methods: A total of 618 urine samples, which comprised of first ten consecutive samples that were received in the microbiology laboratory daily from patients with suspected urinary tract infection