Validity Assesment of The Urinary Test Tape for UTI Diagnosis in Children

Urinary infection is one of the most common diseases of urinary system in children that can lead to infection, septicemia, hypertension, disability and death.The base of UTI diagnosis is urine culture but depestick test is rapid, easier and available for primary study. The aim of the present study was validity assessment of urinary depestick test for diagnosis of children UTI. This study was discriptive analytic and performed in 1988 on children younger than 16 referred to children clinics of Ghaen and Valiasre hospitals in Hamadan and Toeeserkan. In urine positive culture patients, nitrate and leukocyte stares postivity was 56% and 25% respectively. Significant correlation was found between UTI, dipstick test positivity for nitrate and leukocyte stares. The results of this study showed that dipstick tapes containing nitrate and leukocyte estrase are specific (98%) and have enough sensitivity (69.5%) to be used for children UTI diagnosis.