A costly covenant: Ritual circumcision and urinary tract infection

Israel Medical Association Journal

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 262-265

  Toker, Ori ^a,b   Schwartz, Shepard ^a,b   Segal, Gershon ^a,b   Godovitch, Nadia ^a,b   Schlesinger, Yechiel ^a,b   Raveh, David ^a,b  

^a SHAARE ZEDEK MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Ritual circumcision; Urinary tract infection

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID CULTURE; CIRCUMCISION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMERGENCY WARD; ENTEROBACTER; ENTEROCOCCUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; JEW; KLEBSIELLA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; NEWBORN; PREVALENCE; PROTEUS; PSEUDOMONAS; RITUAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; TELEPHONE; URINALYSIS; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ISRAEL; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SYMBOLISM; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS;

CAUSALITY; CEREMONIAL BEHAVIOR; CIRCUMCISION, MALE; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; ISRAEL; JEWS; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREVALENCE; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS;

EID: 77953483356     PISSN: 15651088     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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