[Performance analysis of the Sysmex UF4000/UD10 for diagnosis of urinary tract infections].

Background: we evaluated the performance of the flow cytometry-based UF-4000 automated urine analyzer associated with the UD-10 image analyzer (Sysmex), in comparison with optical microscopy and culture.

Materials And Methods: 2,695 consecutive urine samples of patients were included. The cell count was performed using the analyzer and the Kova cell for 316 samples, and compared according to a threshold of 10 white blood cells (WBC) and 10 red blood cells (RBC) /μL.