That's really interesting stuff. I'm not sure where the figure of 50-80% is coming from, but it's definitely an important new testing methodology
It'd be interesting to know. From the study, it looks like they've identified that there are bacterial species missed by the usual tests, but I couldn't tell how that related back to a proportion of UTIs incorrectly diagnosed
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@sheela_swamy@JamesMaloneLee3@JennyRohn are the researchers involved in several of the studies. Maybe they will comment here -
Here you are.. https://jcm.asm.org/content/early/2018/12/10/JCM.01452-18 … https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00192-018-3558-x … https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00192-017-3472-7 … https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1464-410X.2012.11694.x … https://www.auajournals.org/doi/10.1016/j.juro.2010.01.008 … https://jcm.asm.org/content/51/7/2054.long …
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