Understanding UTIs
Here at Focus Medical Diagnostics, we understand that sometimes, people need a more reliable, in-depth testing service that will pick up any bacteria that may be causing their symptoms.
The extended urine testing that we offer is well recognised to detect more fastidious organisms missed by routine population-based testing methods. We do not use the traditional and rather outdated high threshold of more than 10,000 CFU per ml employed by the standard testing offered by most labs. In addition, we run a liquid broth extraction culture to reveal any background organisms to give a more comprehensive picture of the urine as a whole.
Expert microbiology and clinical interpretation allow us to weed out the pathogens (bad bugs) from the more harmless commensal bacteria which make up the variety of organisms that we may see on culture results.
