Urine Culture & Sensitivity
Urine Culture & Sensitivity grows bacteria from a urine sample to find which germs cause a urinary infection and which antibiotics may work against them. It is used in dogs, cats, cows and buffaloes.
- Sample
- Urine in sterile container
- Quantity
- 5 mL
- Report
- Confirmed when you book
- Collection
- Free in Bhopal
What this test checks
- Whether bacteria (or yeast) grow from the urine
- The type of bacteria that grow
- How many bacteria are present
- Which antibiotics the bacteria are sensitive, intermediate or resistant to
Benefits of this test
- Identifies the bacteria causing a urinary infection.
- Shows which antibiotics are likely to work and which are not, so your vet can choose with more information.
- Useful when urinary infections keep coming back or do not clear.
- A result of no growth helps your vet look for other causes of the signs.
- Helps avoid antibiotics that are unlikely to work, which supports responsible antibiotic use.
When your vet may advise it
- Straining, pain or passing small amounts of urine often.
- Blood, pus or a strong smell in the urine.
- Pus cells or bacteria seen on a urine routine test.
- A urinary infection that keeps coming back or has not cleared.
- A cow or buffalo with signs of a bladder or kidney infection.
- Fever together with signs that point to a kidney infection.
About this test
A urinary tract infection happens when germs, usually bacteria, grow in the bladder, kidneys or urine tubes. A urine culture is the test that finds those bacteria. A sterile urine sample is placed on special growth plates in the lab and kept warm. If bacteria are present, they multiply until the lab can see and name them.
If bacteria grow, the lab names them and then tests them against a set of antibiotics. This second step is called sensitivity. The report shows which antibiotics are likely to work (sensitive) and which are not (resistant), so the choice of antibiotic is based on evidence.
Bacteria need time to grow, so the report takes longer than a routine urine test. Reporting time is confirmed when you book. The vet reads the result with the animal's signs and the urine routine report.
How to prepare
Use a sterile container (ask your vet or the lab) and do not touch its inside. Your vet may take urine straight from the bladder with a fine needle, which gives the cleanest sample; tell the lab about any antibiotics already given. Keep the urine cool; collection is free anywhere in Bhopal, and from outside Bhopal the lab will tell you by phone or WhatsApp how to send it.
Reading the result
No growth means no bacteria grew from that sample, while growth shows which bacteria are present and which antibiotics may work. A registered veterinarian reads the result with the animal's signs and the urine routine findings before deciding what to do.
Questions about Urine Culture & Sensitivity
What does sensitivity mean on the report?
My pet's urine routine already shows infection. Why is a culture needed?
How should urine be collected for a culture?
What does a no growth report mean?
Before you book this test
Why this notice: so you know, before you book, how a test is done, what its limits are and who is responsible.
- Where it is tested. Some tests are done wholly or partly by an independent partner laboratory. The lab tells you before booking if this test is sent out, and the report names the laboratory that did it.
- What a result can and cannot tell you. No test is right every time. A normal result does not rule out every disease, and an abnormal result does not prove one. A registered veterinarian should read the report with the animal’s signs and history before any treatment is started, changed or stopped.
- The sample. A sample that is clotted, too small, wrongly labelled, leaking or too old may be rejected or reported with a note, and the lab may ask for a fresh one.
- Reporting time. Confirmed when you book. Times are estimates, not guarantees, and the lab confirms the time when you book.
- Emergencies. A booking or a pending report must not delay urgent care. If an animal has collapsed, struggles to breathe, has fits or bleeds heavily, call a veterinarian at once.
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