ArticleThe Pan African medical journal2019
Diagnostic value of dipstick test in adult symptomatic urinary tract infections: results of a cross-sectional Tunisian study.
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- Prevalence, antimicrobial susceptibility patterns of bacterial uropathogens and evaluation of urine dipstick parameter accuracy among individuals with diabetes in Ayder Comprehensive Specialized Hospital and Mekelle General Hospital, Tigray, Ethiopia.BMC infectious diseases · 2026Article
- Diagnostic tests for urinary tract infections and antimicrobial resistance-a reality check between diagnostic innovation and implementation: a critical narrative review.Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2026Review
- Assessing the potential of urinary dipstick testing to guide empirical antibiotic treatment for urinary tract infections in patients admitted to the emergency department: a cross-sectional study.Antimicrobial stewardship & healthcare epidemiology : ASHE · 2026Article
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- Overuse of antibiotics for urinary tract infections in pregnant refugees, Lebanon.Bulletin of the World Health Organization · 2024Article
- Evaluation of the diagnostic performance of the urine dipstick test for the detection of urinary tract infections in patients treated in Kenyan hospitals.Access microbiology · 2023Article
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- Efficacy of Urine Dipstick Test in Diagnosing Urinary Tract Infection and Detection of the blaCTX-M Gene among ESBL-ProducingDiseases (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
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Abstract
Urinary tract infections (UTIs) are common. The diagnosis is confirmed by urine culture which is costly and takes at least 24 hours before results are known. The aim of this study was to determine the diagnostic accuracy of dipstick test for the diagnosis of UTI in symptomatic adult patients. We conducted a cross-sectional study in the department of Infectious Diseases, Sousse-Tunisia during a two-year period. We included all patients with clinical signs of UTI. Urine samples were tested for the presence of leukocyte esterase (LE) and nitrites. Sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value (PPV) and negative predictive value (NPV) of LE and nitrites were calculated against urine culture as gold standard. Four hundred thirty one patients, 139 men (32%) and 292 women (68%) were included. One hundred sixty six patients (39%) had UTI. The most frequently isolated microorganism was
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