Introduction
CHROMOSTREAK Urine Culture Device (UCD) is a convenient, semi-quantitative screening culture device for inoculating and transporting urine samples as well as for detecting, enumerating and identifying specific bacteria in urine.
A unique streaking mechanism permits the isolation of single colonies even when the original bacterial population of the sample was as high as 108 organisms per milliliter.
The device is intended for use in physician’s office laboratories and clinical laboratories as an aid in the diagnosis of urinary tract infection (UTI).
Following incubation, the number of bacterial colonies is compared with the Colony Density Chart to determine the colony forming units per ml (CFU/ml) of bacteria in the urine sample.
CHROMOSTREAK UCD contains two types of media: chromogenic agar UTI selective agar and MacConkey agar.
UTI selective agar is chromogenic agar medium composed of a rich nutrient base for isolation and counting of all urinary tract organisms, this include Escherichia coli, Proteus, and enterococci. The device also provides orientation for the diagnosis of the other urinary pathogens, in particular K.E.S. group Enterobacteriaceae (Klebsiellae, Enterobacter, Serratia and Citrobacter species).
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