After surgery, antibiotics must be continued until the infection is confirmed to have cleared (i.e.
a negative urine culture is obtained).
Additionally, of 21 subjects who received antibiotic therapy within a week after urine culture — eight percent of the total — 10 had had
negative urine cultures, and 12 received antibiotics which had no activity, or limited activity against the usual uropathogens, according to the report.
The rest (n = 41, 76 percent) had
negative urine cultures before surgery.
Not exact matches
Urine culture is
negative.
The
urine culture will probably be accurate right away, but occasionally dogs do not shed the bacteria in their
urine all the time so it is possible to get a false
negative.
The
urine should be
cultured and if an organism grows, the patient should be on antibiotics until the
urine cultures negative and possibly through out the entire duration of the stone dissolution process.
My dog's
urine culture was
negative, but he has struvite stones.