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Urine report-what is the problem of the report of >100000 staph aureus?

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Dr. Michael Ein answered

Specializes in Infectious Disease

UTI or septicemia: If you have urinary symptoms ie. Burning, urgency, frequency, flank pain, fever you and if you have wbc's in your urine you haave a urinary tract infection with s. Aureus. As persons with s. Aureus in their blood will frequently have the organism spread to their kidneys and appear in the urine you shoul have blood cultures done before antibiotic treatment and be checked for signs of systemic inf.

Answered 10/3/2016

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