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To the Editor: Standard practice for collecting a urine specimen from women for bacterial culture includes cleansing of the perineum and urethral meatus before collection. To determine whether such cleansing affects the rate of bacterial contamination of midstream urine specimens, we studied 105 asymptomatic health care workers (Table 1). We did not exclude women who were pregnant, were menstruating, or had a known history of urinary tract infection or anatomical abnormality.

View this table: [in this window] [in a new window]   Table 1. Comparison of Clean-Catch and Non-Clean-Catch Urine Samples According to Culture and Urinalysis.

 
Each woman collected two midstream urine samples during consecutive urinations. The first sample was not . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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