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The Dip-Slide: a modified dip-inoculum transport medium for the laboratory diagnosis of infections of the urinary tract

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 May 2009

G. R. E. Naylor  and
Dennis Guttmann
G. R. E. Naylor
Affiliation:
Public Health Laboratory Service, Cambridge
Dennis Guttmann
Affiliation:
Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge
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The dip-slide, consisting of a glass microscope slide coated with nutrient medium and inoculated by dipping in freshly voided urine, provides a simple measure of the bacterial concentration in fresh urine. This is a useful supplement to the usual microscopy and culture of urine in the diagnosis of urinary tract infections in general practice, when specimens cannot be delivered to a laboratory within several hours of collection, particularly when urine specimens have to travel by post. Dip-slides are also useful as the sole test in screening for symptomless bacteriuria.

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Research Article
Information
Journal of Hygiene , Volume 65 , Issue 3 , September 1967 , pp. 367 - 371
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1967

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