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A member asked:
How long does it take for a uti to show up on a urine culture, if you have an infection?
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48 hours: Usually within 48 hours.
Answered 11/26/2012
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It may never show up: Utis is a clinical diagnosis - that means for a physician, we rely mainly on the patient's symptoms (pain on urination, hesitancy, frequency, flank/supra pubic pain) to make a dx. In many cases, we can grow and isolate the offending organism in the lab in <24hrs.. In other cases, it is much harder to do this (eg chlamydia, ureaplasma, mycoplasma) - sometimes resulting in a negative culture.
Answered 5/2/2017
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