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Performance of an innovative culture-based digital dipstick for detection of bacteriuria
KTH, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), Intelligent systems, Micro and Nanosystems. UTIlizer AB, Stockholm, Sweden.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-1559-3692
Department of Clinical Microbiology, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden.
BaseClear BV, Leiden, the Netherlands.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-8545-5108
KTH, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), Intelligent systems, Micro and Nanosystems.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-8248-6670
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2023 (English)In: Microbiology Spectrum, E-ISSN 2165-0497Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

UTI-lizer is a recent digital format for easy-to-use culture-based detection, preliminary identification, and quantification of bacteria in urine at the point of care (PoC). This study aimed to evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of UTI-lizer tests for detection of bacteriuria caused by five common bacterial species: Escherichia coli, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Enterococcus faecalis, Proteus mirabilis, and Staphylococcus saprophyticus. We evaluated the accuracy of UTI-lizer tests by comparing test results of UTI-lizer with those of current standard bacterial culture-based diagnostics in clinical microbiology laboratories in a retrospective and a prospective study. Comparator methods were classical bacterial culture in combination with matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization-time of flight mass spectrometry mediated bacterial identification. In the retrospective study, we tested 104 urine samples with in-panel microorganisms, plain urethral microbiota, and culture-negative samples. In the prospective study, we used 137 urine samples within 10 hours of their collection at general practitioner clinics. The retrospective study demonstrated 100% sensitivity and specificity in the detection of bacteriuria, and 98.6% sensitivity and 96.8% specificity in identifying primary pathogens with UTI-lizer when compared to clinical standards. S. saprophyticus and E. coli could not be distinguished. The combined nitrite and esterase test predicted the presence of bacteriuria in only 36.5% of cases. The prospective study demonstrated 100% sensitivity and 89.6% specificity in the detection of significant bacteriuria for in-panel microorganisms with a coverage rate of 88.3% (121/137). This study indicates that digital dipsticks are a promising alternative for the detection of the five main pathogens that cause the vast majority of urinary tract infections (UTIs). The results demonstrate that digital dipsticks have the potential to uniquely provide—in primary care or at the point of care—a UTI diagnostic quality on par with that of current gold-standard testing. The ease of testing, rapid test handling time, and time to result as well as simple test equipment make digital dipsticks an attractive solution for decentralized testing for bacteriuria and with that improvement in UTI diagnostics. These results motivate future studies to validate the use of UTI-lizer at the PoC setting.

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American Society for Microbiology , 2023.
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Microbiology in the medical area
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URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-341016DOI: 10.1128/spectrum.03613-23ISI: 001125617400004PubMedID: 38088544Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85182501701OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-341016DiVA, id: diva2:1820487
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Vinnova, 2022-01431Vinnova, 2022-02297
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Available from: 2023-12-18 Created: 2023-12-18 Last updated: 2025-01-30Bibliographically approved

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