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Determination of diagnostic value (validity) leukocyte esterase (urine dipstick strip) in differentiating inflammatory arthritis from bacterial arthritis.

Mehrnoush Hassas YeganehMaryam TalaeiAlireza Ebrahimi BazzazKhosro RahmaniReza SinaeiMohammad-Reza FathiReza ShiariHamid Hosseinzadeh
Published in: Advances in rheumatology (London, England) (2020)
The leukocyte esterase strip test can be used as a rapid, bedside method for diagnosing or excluding bacterial infections in different body fluids. The synovial LE test can be used as an accurate test to rapidly rule in or out an acute articular bacterial infection, even in patients with concurrent inflammatory arthritis.
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