Urinary tract infections in women: Diagnosis and management in primary care

British Medical Journal

Volumn 332, Issue 7533, 2006, Pages 94-97

  Car, Josip ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEFALEXIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; CRANBERRY EXTRACT; NITROFURANTOIN; OFLOXACIN; PARACETAMOL; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; STEROID; TRIMETHOPRIM;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANXIETY; CONVULSION; CRANBERRY; DYSURIA; EPILEPSY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; LINGONBERRY; MICTURITION; MORBIDITY; PREVALENCE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SEXUAL INTERCOURSE; STEROID THERAPY; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TENDON RUPTURE; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION; UNNECESSARY PROCEDURE; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CYSTITIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS;

EID: 30744444689     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.332.7533.94     Document Type: Review

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