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Why are antimicrobial agents prescribed after a urine culture if the culture is sterile?

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Antibiotics?: If a urine culture is sterile, there are no bacteria in the urine. In that case, antibiotics are not needed as they would have nothing to treat.

Answered 12/29/2014

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