"New" urine test

RE: "New" urine test

Bob Russell — Tue, 01 Oct 2019 13:24:28 GMT

No expert beyond doing a 'Google'!

An article:

https://bmcurol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12894-015-0001-1

Not sure if I am comparing apples and pairs but so often medical 'cast offs' seem to appear for veterinary use.

I would want a lot of evidence before being convinced but happy to be further educated!

RE: "New" urine test

Neil Wheadon — Mon, 30 Sep 2019 14:58:54 GMT

Mid stream catch samples work well, theory being that any contaminants have been washed away

Recent CPD suggests that Dick White Referrals are seeing 40% of cases that are resistant to antibiotics, a scary amount and far worse than 5 years ago.

Neil

RE: "New" urine test

Andreia Dias — Mon, 30 Sep 2019 13:36:41 GMT

Can't help with that, but to me this only seems to work for cysto samples with good asepsis. However, we often send free catch samples in cats for detection of UTI. Yes you're not meant to do it, but if there is good litter tray management and the owners clean the tray thoroughly before applying Katkor, it seems to work - the lab can often tell if the growth is likely due to contamination or a pathogen (which this test won't let us do), and we know most cats do not have UTIs. We often have these come back negative too even though they are free catch.

Sounds useful for dogs though! Although, again, we tended to do inhouse cytology on free catch samples and diagnose based on phagocytosis of bacteria by PMNs - which again, we often found. So cheaper and quicker, but no C/S on that one.