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Background  Urinary tract infection (UTI) is one of the most common diagnoses in girls and women, and to a lesser extent in boys and men younger than 50 years.  Escherichia coli , followed by  Klebsiella spp.  and  Proteus spp. , cause 75-90% of all infections. Infection of the urinary tract is identified by growth of a significant number of a single species in the urine, in the presence of symptoms. Urinary culture is an accurate diagnostic method but takes several hours or days to be carried out. Metabolomics analysis aims to identify biomarkers that are capable of speeding up diagnosis.    Methods  Urine samples from 51 patients with a prior diagnosis of  Escherichia coli -associated UTI, from 21 patients with UTI caused by other pathogens (bacteria and fungi), and from 61 healthy controls were analyzed. The  1 H-NMR spectra were acquired and processed. Multivariate statistical models were applied and their performance was validated using permutation test and ROC curve.    Results  Orthogonal Partial Least Squares-discriminant Analysis (OPLS-DA) showed good separation (R 2 Y = 0.76, Q2=0.45,  p  < 0.001) between UTI caused by  Escherichia coli  and healthy controls. Acetate and trimethylamine were identified as discriminant metabolites. The concentrations of both metabolites were calculated and used to build the ROC curves. The discriminant metabolites identified were also evaluated in urine samples from patients with other pathogens infections to test their specificity.    Conclusions  Acetate and trimethylamine were identified as optimal candidates for biomarkers for UTI diagnosis. The conclusions support the possibility of a fast diagnostic test for  Escherichia coli -associated UTI using acetate and trimethylamine concentrations.    Electronic supplementary material  The online version of this article (10.1186/s12866-017-1108-1) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.

1H NMR spectroscopy-based metabolomics analysis for the diagnosis of symptomatic E. coli-associated urinary tract infection (UTI)