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UroKEY Urological (UTI) Test Service

$199.00$215.00

  • Urine Sample (self-collect)
  • Results within 4 days of receipt
  • Test for over 50,000 potential pathogens
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If you suffer from chronic or reoccurring urinary tract infections (UTIs)  or have been diagnosed with interstitial cystitis (IC), you need answers about what is causing your infection. Traditional laboratory cultures, which attempt grow the microbes from your urine sample in a lab, often fail to identify the bacteria or fungi that make up your infection. MicroGenDX combines two advanced technologies to test your urine sample instead. One is called “next-generation sequencing” (NGS), which uses a database of over 50,000 bacteria and fungi to identify all of the microbes in your urine sample with 99% accuracy over 3-5 days. The other is called qualitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR), which can more quickly identify common microbes causing UTI or IC in just 24-48 hours. If you are suffering from pain while urinating, bladder pain, a persistent need to urinate, dribbling, pain during sex, or other UTI or IC symptoms, then now may be the time to get a urine test that uses qPCR and NGS.

For an additional charge, you can add a urine test for sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) – also called sexually transmitted Infections (STIs) – to detect Gonorrhea, T. vaginalis (“trich”), Chlamydia, and Mycoplasma genitalium.

Symptoms to consider for use

  • Urgent, persistent need to urinate
  • Pain or burning when urinating
  • Very frequent urination
  • Straining and dribbling – i.e., passing small amounts of urine
  • Blood in the urine (may turn urine red, pink, or brownish)
  • Strong-smelling urine
  • Discharge from the urethra
  • Pain in the pelvis in women
  • Pain between the scrotum and anus in men
  • Frequent urination throughout the day
  • Pain or discomfort in the bladder before urinating, and relief after
  • Pain during or after sex

Medical specialties that treat infection

  • Primary Care Physician
  • Urologist
  • Urogynecologist

To Utilize Physician Service

MicroGenDX Delivered Steps

Step 1: Place an order using the physician service (leave box checked)

Step 2: Set up your patient portal

Step 3: Collect and ship your sample

Step 4: Receive results through your patient portal

Step 5 (Optional): Consult a healthcare provider about your results (instructions on how to do this will be sent to your email)

Purchase disclaimers

  • Sample should be shipped out to the lab within 24 hours of collection. If you are unable to ship out the sample within 24 hours, be sure to place in a refrigerator.
  • Samples that have not been submitted, cannot be refunded after 90 days.
  • We DO NOT offer refunds on shipping fees or lab services.

Add-ons

If you select that you would like STI testing we will also run a discrete test using PCR that checks for:

  • Chlamydia trachomatis
  • Mycoplasma genitalium
  • Neisseria gonorrhoeae
  • Trichomonas vaginalis

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If you suffer from chronic or reoccurring urinary tract infections (UTIs)  or have been diagnosed with interstitial cystitis (IC), you need answers about what is causing your infection. Traditional laboratory cultures, which attempt grow the microbes from your urine sample in a lab, often fail to identify the bacteria or fungi that make up your infection. MicroGenDX combines two advanced technologies to test your urine sample instead. One is called “next-generation sequencing” (NGS), which uses a database of over 50,000 bacteria and fungi to identify all of the microbes in your urine sample with 99% accuracy over 3-5 days. The other is called qualitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR), which can more quickly identify common microbes causing UTI or IC in just 24-48 hours. If you are suffering from pain while urinating, bladder pain, a persistent need to urinate, dribbling, pain during sex, or other UTI or IC symptoms, then now may be the time to get a urine test that uses qPCR and NGS.

For an additional charge, you can add a urine test for sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) – also called sexually transmitted Infections (STIs) – to detect Gonorrhea, T. vaginalis (“trich”), Chlamydia, and Mycoplasma genitalium.

A urinary tract infection (UTI) is an infection in any part of your urinary system – your kidneys, bladder, ureters (the tubes that carry urine from the kidneys to the bladder) or urethra (the tube that carries urine out of the body).
UTIs are usually either “upper” or “lower,” depending on where the infection is located. The most common are lower UTIs, which infect the bladder and can cause it to become inflamed (these are referred to as “cystitis”).

In most cases, these bladder infections are caused by bacteria, though they can sometimes be caused by certain viruses or fungi (yeast).

Both women and men get bladder infections, but they are much more common among women. For example, among people between the ages of 20 and 50, bacterial UTIs are about 50 times more common among women than men. In people older than 50, there’s less of a difference between the sexes. Read more

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