Update on Childhood Urinary Tract Infection and Vesicoureteral Reflux

Seminars in Nephrology

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 349-359

  Bell, Lorraine E ^a   Mattoo, Tej K ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

^b WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

antimicrobial prophylaxis; chronic kidney disease; Urinary tract infection; vesicoureteral reflux

Indexed keywords

AMINOGLYCOSIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; CEFIXIME; CEFTIBUTEN; CEFTRIAXONE; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; COTRIMOXAZOLE; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 6; INTERLEUKIN 8;

ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIURIA; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONSTIPATION; CYSTITIS; HOST RESISTANCE; HUMAN; HYDRONEPHROSIS; HYPERTENSION; INFECTION RISK; INFLAMMATION; KIDNEY DYSPLASIA; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY SCAR; MICTURITION DISORDER; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEINURIA; PYELONEPHRITIS; RECURRENT INFECTION; REFLUX NEPHROPATHY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; URINALYSIS; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; URINE CULTURE; VESICOURETERAL REFLUX;

ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HUMANS; KIDNEY; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS; VESICO-URETERAL REFLUX;

EID: 67650102307     PISSN: 02709295     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.semnephrol.2009.03.011     Document Type: Article

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