Publications by authors named "Ivy B Nguyen"
Appl Environ Microbiol
November 2024
Article Synopsis
- - Between 2% and 15% of pregnant women have asymptomatic bacteriuria (ASB), which can lead to serious pregnancy complications like pyelonephritis and low-birth weight infants, but routine screening is often missing in developing countries.
- - The Aquagenx water quality test kits, typically used for water testing, have been adapted to detect ASB in urine, showing high accuracy in clinical samples and minimal false positive and negative rates.
- - This innovative ASB screening protocol using Aquagenx not only has the potential to improve healthcare in low-resource settings but could also effectively diagnose the majority of ASB cases, as it covers 90.1% of the common causative agents.
