CHROMagar Orientation

Urinary tract infections (UTIs) are a severe public health problem. Up to 40 % of women will develop UTI at least once during their lives, and a significant number of these women will have recurrent urinary tract infections. Thus, any workload reduction related to this analysis will dramatically improve the efficiency of the laboratory. CHROMagar™ Orientation is a non-selective chromogenic culture medium intended for use in the qualitative direct detection, differentiation and presumptive identification of uropathogens to aid in the diagnosis of urine tract infections. The test is performed with urine samples. Results can be interpreted after 18-24 h of aerobic incubation at 35-37 °C. Concomitant cultures are necessary to recover organisms for further microbiological testing or epidemiological typing. A lack of growth or the absence of colonies on CHROMagar™ Orientation does not preclude the presence of bacteria. CHROMagar™ Orientation is not intended to diagnose infection nor to guide nor monitor treatment for infections. CHROMagar™ Orientation can also be used with veterinary samples.