Urinalysis for diaper-wearing elderly people using a combination of cotton-based diagnostic devices and smartphone-based image analysis

Background: Urinary tract infection (UTI) is one of the most common bacterial infections, annually affecting 150 million people worldwide. The highest prevalence of UTI in the overall elderly population. However, practical problems have occurred in urine sampling in diaper-wearing elderly people. Our aim is to develop a new type of the in-vitro diagnostic devices based on “cotton”, which allows us to detect the nitrite concentrations in urine...