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Can you have a bacterial infection without nitrites showing up?
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Yes: We sometimes treat the infection and patient symptoms and not 'treating the lab results.'.
Answered 9/6/2013
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What can cause consistently (several months, possibly a year or more) high leukocytes in urine with no nitrites and no symptoms of a uti or other infection?
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