Increased urine interleukin-6 concentrations correlate with pyelonephritic changes on 99mTc-dimercaptosuccinic acid scans in neonates with urinary tract infections

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 180, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 904-907

  Roilides, Emmanuel ^a,b   Papachristou, Fotis ^a   Gioulekas, Elias ^a   Tsaparidou, Sevasti ^a   Karatzas, Nicolas ^a   Sotiriou, John ^a   Tsiouris, John ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b Aristotle University of Thessaloniki   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMPICILLIN; INTERLEUKIN 6; INTERLEUKIN 8; SUCCIMER TC 99M;

ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE RELEASE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; HUMAN; KIDNEY PARENCHYMA; KIDNEY SCINTISCANNING; MALE; NEWBORN; NEWBORN INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYELONEPHRITIS; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTERLEUKIN-6; INTERLEUKIN-8; KIDNEY; MALE; PYELONEPHRITIS; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; TECHNETIUM TC 99M DIMERCAPTOSUCCINIC ACID; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS;

EID: 0032827481     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/314960     Document Type: Article

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