Duration of therapy for urinary tract infection: The long and the short of it

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 665-666

  Gupta, Kalpana ^a   Hooton, Thomas M ^b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; CIPROFLOXACIN; PLACEBO; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

BACTERIURIA; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CULTURE MEDIUM; CYSTITIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENTEROCOCCUS; EVALUATION; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; GENETICS; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HUMAN; INFECTION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NOTE; PHYSICIAN; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYELONEPHRITIS; RANDOMIZATION; RELAPSE; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SYSTEMIC DISEASE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

HUMANS; TIME FACTORS; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS;

EID: 4444242102     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/423004     Document Type: Note

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