Update on the diagnosis of urinary tract infections

The terms uroanalysis, urinalysis, urinalysis, urine analysis, urine cytochemistry, partial urinalysis describe a profile or group of screening tests capable of detecting renal, urinary tract or systemic disease. The urine test is performed in a simple and inexpensive way with strips and rapid reading equipment; it is a routine analysis for the study of patients with alterations in urinary tract, it is a test that provides indicators for the study of the health-disease process. It analyzes the microscopic characteristics of the urinary sediment, which verifies hematuria, pyuria, cylindruria, crystalluria. The general urine test is not only a routine test, but it is a study that helps the doctor to diagnose various pathologies and infections and make the most of the test in clinical practice, also the general urine test is a low cost test that if carried out accurately and properly will provide great useful information to the doctor and thus prevent in time some pathologies of the urinary system that may occur in the patient.