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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Mar 26.
Published in final edited form as: J Urol. 2016 Mar 30;196(3):769–774. doi: 10.1016/j.juro.2016.03.148

Table 4.

Urine and stone cultures with respect to stone composition

No. Struvite/Highly
Carbonated Apatite Stone (%)
No. Metabolic
Stone (%)
Both cultures neg 15 (12) 330 (51.2)
Pos urine culture only 23 (18.4) 104 (16.1)
Pos stone culture only 11 (8.8) 63 (9.8)
Both cultures pos 76 (60.8) 148 (22.9)


  Totals 125 645