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Re: UTI or vaginal infection

From: R. Daniel Braun, MD (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Thu, 31 Jan 2002 16:34:38 -0600 (CST)


At Thu, 31 Jan 2002, anon wrote: >
>I have been doing clean catch urine cultures. I have had 2 uti's since
>this preg. started.
>
>After stopping my course of therapy of Macrobid on Monday, I just had a
>sterile catch urine today which is Thursday.
>
>My urine looked crystal clear.
>
>Obviously the Macrobid could have just worked, but I was wondering, what
>are the chances that I could never have had a uti, and it was a vaginal
>bacterial infection?
>
>The organism was Enterobacter.
>
>Thank you.

Depends on many things including how long it took from the time the specimen was collected until it was plated in the lab. Also probably wasn't truly a UTI. If no symptoms, it would be asymptomatic bacteriuria which is just bacteria in the urine which is not causing an infection. If this is present in early pregnancy, Pyelonephritis(Kidney infection) near term is increased.

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