Evaluation of the Sysmex UF-5000 Fluorescence Flow Cytometer As a Screening Platform for Ruling out Urinary Tract Infections in Elderly Patients Presenting at the Emergency Department
Scandinavian Journal of Clinical and Laboratory Investigation(2021)
摘要
In this study, we evaluated the performance of the flow cytometer-based Sysmex UF-5000 automated urine analyzer as a screening tool for ruling out urinary tract infections in elderly patients presenting at the emergency department. A total of 1119 unselected patient samples (including 544 samples from elderly patients) submitted for urine culture were included in this study. Samples were measured on UF-5000 and dipsticks and the results were compared with interpretation of culture results, which is the gold standard. We obtained a diagnostic sensitivity of 99% and specificity of 51% with a low rate of false negatives (0.2%) and a negative predictive value of 99% at 108 colony forming bacteria/L (CFB/L). A bacterial count ≥ 50x106/L or yeast like cells ≥ 25x106/L was used as the cutoff value. At this cutoff value, 30% of the urine cultures would have been redundant. This resulted in 35% false positive samples, mainly due to particle contamination or nongrowing bacteria. In comparison, at best, the dipsticks have a diagnostic sensitivity of 89%, a specificity of 52% and a negative predictive value of 92% at 108 CFB/L.
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Bacteriuria screening,urinary tract infection,urine flow cytometry,UF-5000,urinalysis
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