{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2012-506/annex/division-3/division-3.1/division-3.1.15/division-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2012-506/annex/division-3/division-3.1/division-3.1.15/division-2.json",
  "legislation": "eudn/2012/506",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Implementing Decision of 8 August 2012 amending Decision 2002/253/EC laying down case definitions for reporting communicable diseases to the Community network under Decision No 2119/98/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council (notified under document C(2012) 5538) (Text with EEA relevance) (2012/506/EU)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2012-506",
  "path": "annex/division/3/division/3.1/division/3.1.15/division/2",
  "kind": "division",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "UTI-B: not microbiologically confirmed symptomatic UTI",
  "text": "Patient has at least two of the following with no other recognised cause: fever (> 38 °C), urgency, frequency, dysuria, or suprapubic tenderness\nAND\nat least one of the following:\nPositive dipstick for leukocyte esterase and/or nitrate\nPyuria urine specimen with ≥ 104 WBC/ml or ≥ 3 WBC/high-power field of unspun urine\nOrganisms seen on Gram stain of unspun urine\nAt least two urine cultures with repeated isolation of the same uropathogen (gram-negative bacteria or Staphylococcus saprophyticus) with ≥ 102 colonies/ml urine in non-voided specimens\n≤ 105 colonies/ml of a single uropathogen (gram-negative bacteria or Staphylococcus saprophyticus) in a patient being treated with effective antimicrobial agent for a urinary infection\nPhysician diagnosis of a urinary tract infection\nPhysician institutes appropriate therapy for a urinary infection\nAsymptomatic bacteriuria should not be reported, but bloodstream infections secondary to asymptomatic bacteriuria are reported as BSI with source (origin) S-UTI\nA urinary tract infection (UCA-UTI) is defined as catheter-associated if an indwelling urinary catheter was present (even intermittently) in the seven days preceding the onset of infection",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2012/506/annex/division/3/division/3.1/division/3.1.15/division/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:15:21.976168+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}