UTI Resources
Promus Pathway vs Other Labs’ PCR
Other Labs have claimed that bacterial interactions in poly-microbial UTIs change (increase) the tolerance of organisms to drugs. To support their claim, they concentrate the urine samples by centrifugation (not recommended or accepted by infectious disease specialists) and resuspend in a growth medium followed by aliquoting into plates that contain different concentrations of drugs. It is a well-known fact in microbiology that concentrating the organisms causes damage to their cell walls which will lead to inaccurate AST results. The pooled-AST method can only report 57% of uropathogens because they depend on retrieving the live organism.
Other Labs’ PCR
Their results do not match their claim because:

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