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Bacteriuria in a Scottish island community. A comparison of chemical and cultural tests for bacteriuria applied in remote surroundings

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 May 2009

F. R. Calvert ,
V. M. Hawthorne ,
P. G. Mann  and
G. H. Sandys
F. R. Calvert
Affiliation:
Baugh House, Scarinish, Tiree, Argyll
V. M. Hawthorne
Affiliation:
Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, University of Glasgow, Ruchill Hospital, Glasgow N. W.
P. G. Mann
Affiliation:
Public Health Laboratory, Royal United Hospital, Bath BA1 3NG
G. H. Sandys
Affiliation:
Public Health Laboratory, Royal United Hospital, Bath BA1 3NG
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Four hundred and thirty-eight overtly healthy adults on Tiree were screened for bacteriuria by dip-inoculum culture and a tetrazolium reductase test.

Dip-inoculum culture affords a simple and effective means of providing a service in quantitative urine bacteriology for communities remote from a laboratory.

The pattern of bacteriuria on Tiree is much the same as in other communities surveyed. Criteria are discussed for assessing the sensitivity of the tetrazolium test in terms of quantitative urine culture.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Hygiene , Volume 70 , Issue 1 , March 1972 , pp. 105 - 112
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1972

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