INTRODUCTION
 Urinary tract of female undergoes tremendous changes during pregnancy which increases their risk acquiring infection. Asymptomatic bacteriuria is a common entity among pregnant women refers to significant (>105 bacteria per ml urine) without any typical symptoms urinary can lead various maternal and fetal complications if not detected treated on time.
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Abstract Background Urinary tract infections (UTI) of sows characterized by cystitis, which may progress to ureteritis and pyelonephritis, can affect their productivity, longevity welfare. In this study, we determined the prevalence UTI histopathology bacteriology. Furthermore, investigated possible associations between histologically confirmed cystitis results urinalysis urine cultures in cull...

The Chemstrip LN (Boehringer Mannheim Biochemicals, Indianapolis, Ind.), designed to detect pyuria and bacteriuria, was compared with culture of 1,020 unselected, consecutive midstream urine specimens and evaluated on its ability to predict colony counts at three levels. At the level of greater than or equal to 10(5) CFU/ml, the combined test (detection of leukocyte esterase and nitrite) had se...

A rapid method for quantifying bacteriuria was evaluated in 114 clinical specimens using a bacterial adenosine triphosphate (ATP) assay. The procedure allows for removal and destruction of non-bacterial ATP and subsequent analysis of bacteria ATP by firefly (Photinus pyralis) luciferin -luciferase bioluminescence and requires 30 minutes as a whole. The correlation coefficient between the number...

We compared the sensitivity, specificity, and predictive values of the 1-min leukocyte esterase test and the test for urinary nitrite alone and in combination as screening tests for bacteriuria in over 5,000 clinical urine specimens. The leukocyte esterase-nitrite combination had a sensitivity of 79.2%, a specificity of 81%, and a negative predictive value of a negative test of 94.5% for specim...