Lab culture can take up to three days, and in the meantime patients with UTI symptoms are often prescribed broad-spectrum antibiotics that may be unnecessary, less effective, and encourage AMR.

Antibiotic resistance is a serious threat to public health. When antibiotics don't work, we risk not being able to treat many types of infections and people who would previously have been cured, can ...

The System reduces the time for UTI diagnosis to just 15 minutes and ... timely and precise care while reducing reliance on broad-spectrum antibiotics — a critical step in slowing the rise ...

Delayed initiation of broad-spectrum gram-negative antibiotic therapy was not linked to worse clinical outcomes among adult inpatients.

Medically reviewed by Matthew Wosnitzer, MD Urinary tract infections (UTIs) are common in adults 65 and older, mainly due to age-related factors like malnutrition, poor bladder control, and ...