Can urinary nitrite results be used to guide antimicrobial choice for urinary tract infection?

Journal of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 435-438

  Larson, Michael J ^a   Brooks, Chris B ^a   Leary, Wilda C ^a   Lewis, Lawrence M ^b  

^a SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Antibiotics; Antimicrobial therapy; Enterococci; Enterococcus nitrite; Trimethoprim sulfamethoxazole; Urinary tract infection

Indexed keywords

COTRIMOXAZOLE; NITRITE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIMICROBIAL THERAPY; ARTICLE; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; ENTEROCOCCUS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; URINALYSIS; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; URINE LEVEL;

ADULT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; ENTEROCOCCUS; HUMANS; NITRITES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SULFAMETHOXAZOLE; TRIMETHOPRIM; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS;

EID: 0030877461     PISSN: 07364679     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0736-4679(97)00069-3     Document Type: Article

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