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somebody made a post recently about wether or not chlamydia cultures are done routinely in pregnant patients or not ..
how would you screen for asymtpmatic bacteriuria?
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i think by routine urinalysis in prenatal check up.
if urine culture >100,000 colonies then + for Asy bacteriuria..
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thats what i thought
but plain urinalysis cannot pick bacteria
100k cfu can only be checked in cullture
so routine culture is recommended
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urinalysis for protiens, glucose, ketones, RBC, WBC, casts etc.
both urinalysis and culture to be done ..
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I asked about chlamydia culture by cervical culture,not urine culture,so my q is whether cervical culture for chlamydia is routine in pregnancy?
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