UTI PATHOGEN
DETECTION

Urinary Tract Infection is a very common bacterial or fungal infection responsible for more than 15 million office and emergency room visits each year in the United States. UTIs are more prevalent in women, older individuals, and younger individuals. Traditionally, pathogen identification in UTIs has been accomplished through culture methods which have the disadvantages of taking a long time, lack sensitivity and have been shown to miss a significant percentage of positive cases. Genics Laboratories is now offering a new solution to pathogen detection in UTIs, Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (qPCR) for Urinary Tract Microbiota.