Sentences with phrase «positive urine cultures»

Thirteen participants (24 percent) had positive urine cultures before surgery.

Of these 54 women, 10 (18.5 percent) developed UTI symptoms after surgery, while four (7 percent) had positive urine cultures after surgery.

«An abnormal UA [urinalysis] result, seen in 92 percent of our subjects, was a common finding, poorly predicted the presence of a positive urine culture, and may also have contributed to the overdiagnosis of UTI.»

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Infection was documented by the presence of clinical signs of sepsis and by positive cultures for pathogenic organisms at one or more of the following sites: blood, spinal fluid, urine, stool, pleural fluid, umbilicus, or surgical wound.

Studies of cats with clinical signs of lower urinary tract disease (dysuria, stranguria, pollakiuria) have consistently shown that the overall prevalence of positive bacterial urine cultures is < 3 % [2,15].

Blood cultures in dogs yield positive results in about 45 % to 75 % of cases, and urine cultures are positive in about 25 % to 50 % of cases.

Blood cultures in dogs yield positive results in about 45 % to 75 % of cases, and urine cultures are positive in about 25 % to 50 % of cases.1 Serologic testing for Brucella antibody and Aspergillus antigen may be performed.5 Cerebral spinal fluid analysis is often normal, but increased protein concentration (albuminocytologic dissociation) or a neutrophilic pleocytosis is occasionally observed.1 When urine, blood cultures, and serology have not identified a cause, CT or fluoroscopy - guided fine - needle aspiration of the infected disc space may be performed under general anesthesia, or a surgical biopsy specimen from the lesion can be obtained for culture.

• Antibiotics - Antibiotics may be prescribed after surgery or catheterization particularly if a bladder infection is suspected or a positive culture was obtained from the urine or bladder wall.