| DESCRIPTION |
Definition Revised (2004):
2. Two of the following: fever (>38 degrees C), urgency, frequency,
dysuria, or suprapubic tenderness AND any of the following:
- Dipstick test positive for leukocyte esterase and/or nitrate
- Pyuria (>10 WBCs/cc or >3 WBC/hpf of unspun urine)
- Organisms seen on Gram stain of unspun urine
- Two urine cultures with repeated isolation of the same uropathogen
with >100 colonies/ml urine in non-voided specimen
- Urine culture with <100,000 colonies/ml urine of single
uropathogen in patient being treated with appropriate
Postoperative symptomatic urinary tract infection must meet one of the
antimicrobial therapy
- Physician's diagnosis
- Physician institutes appropriate antimicrobial therapy
following TWO criteria:
1. One of the following: fever (>38 degrees C), urgency, frequency,
dysuria, or suprapubic tenderness AND a urine culture of >100,000
colonies/ml urine with no more than two species of organisms
OR
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