Antibiotic resistance in uncomplicated urinary tract infection: Problems with interpreting cumulative resistance rates from local community laboratories

New Zealand Medical Journal

Volumn 115, Issue 1146, 2002, Pages 12-14

  Richards, Derelie A ^a   Toop, Les J ^a   Chambers, Stephen T ^a   Sutherland, Margaret G ^a   Harris, Ben H ^a   Ikram, Rosemary B ^a   Jones, Mark R ^a   McGeoch, Graham R B ^a   Peddie, Barbara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; CIPROFLOXACIN; NITRITE; NITROFURANTOIN; NORFLOXACIN; SULFAMETHOXAZOLE; TRIMETHOPRIM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CALCULATION; CLINICAL LABORATORY; COMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSURIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LEUKOCYTE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MICROBIOLOGY; NEW ZEALAND; NONHUMAN; PRESCRIPTION; PROBABILITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; URINALYSIS; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; URINE CULTURE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS, URINARY; DRUG RESISTANCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TRIMETHOPRIM; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS;

EID: 0037169145     PISSN: 00288446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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