Is Culture-positive Urinary Tract Infection in Febrile Children Accurately Identified by Urine Dipstick or Microanalysis
The Journal of Emergency Medicine, 07/18/2012
Perkins J et al. – The literature search did not conclusively identify any component of either the urine dipstick (UDip) or the urine microanalysis (UA) , which would allow a practitioner to conclude definitively that the source of an infant's fever is a urinary tract infection (UTI).



