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Re: Urine culture

From: Ann (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Wed, 16 Jan 2002 13:58:40 -0600 (CST)

At Tue, 15 Jan 2002, anonymous wrote: >
>I had a special urine culture done today for ureaplasma. I had to go to
>the lab where they know which medium to put it in, etc.
>
>I was originally told that a cervical culture is better, however, do you
>think that I can rely on this result from the urine?
>
>Thanks!

NO!!! You CANNOT rely on a urine culture! I had a urine culture and a cervical culture done the same day, the urine culture for a UTI, and the cervical for ureaplasma. The urine culture came back PERFECT, and the cervical culture came back POSITIVE for ureaplasma. Ureaplasma MUST be cultured using a special cervical swab and liquid solution they use to test for clamydia, and mycoplasma. I was tested for ureaplasma and mycoplasma on this one swab, the mycoplasma came back negative. Anyway, it is so difficult to culture ureaplasma by urine culture. I would go back and get tested for it via cervical swab, for if your urine culture comes back perfect i can tell you from personal experience, that you cannot feel secure that you dont have ureaplasma. Good luck and please take my advice!



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