Urinary tract infection
This series puts the spotlight on the topic of urinary tract infections (UTIs). As one of the most frequently occurring bacterial infections worldwide, UTIs pose a significant healthcare burden. Increasing awareness of the disease is essential to both reducing the number of infections, treating those that occur more effectively and avoiding unnecessary antibiotic treatments that foster antimicrobial resistance (AMR).
We address various questions and topics surrounding UTIs. Are you a patient and suspect that you have contracted a UTI for the first time and want to know what to expect? Are you working in a urinalysis (or microbiology) laboratory and interested in how you can optimise the current workflow and speed up results? Are you a clinician who wants to foster rapid UTI diagnostics to support antimicrobial stewardship?
Or maybe you want to know all of the above. If so, you’re in the right place.
