Urinary tract infection: Clinical practice guideline for the diagnosis and management of the initial UTI in febrile infants and children 2 to 24 months

Pediatrics

Volumn 128, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 595-610

  Roberts, Kenneth B ^a   Downs, Stephen M ^a   Finnell, S Maria E ^a   Hellerstein, Stanley ^a   Shortliffe, Linda D ^a   Wald, Ellen R ^a   Zerin, J Michael ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Children; Infants; Urinary tract infection; Vesicoureteral reflux; Voiding cystourethrography

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; CEFALEXIN; CEFIXIME; CEFOTAXIME; CEFPODOXIME; CEFPROZIL; CEFTAZIDIME; CEFTRIAXONE; CEFUROXIME AXETIL; COTRIMOXAZOLE; GENTAMICIN; PIPERACILLIN; SULFAFURAZOLE; TOBRAMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BLADDER; CHILD; ECHOGRAPHY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; FEVER; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HYDRONEPHROSIS; INFANT; MALE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MICTURITION CYSTOURETHROGRAPHY; OBSTRUCTIVE UROPATHY; PATIENT MONITORING; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYURIA; RECURRENT DISEASE; RENOGRAPHY; REVIEW; STANDARDIZATION; TREATMENT INDICATION; UNITED STATES; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; URINE CULTURE; VESICOURETERAL REFLUX;

FEMALE; FEVER; HUMANS; INFANT; KIDNEY; LEUKOCYTES; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; PEDIATRICS; PYURIA; RECURRENCE; STEM CELLS; URINALYSIS; URINARY BLADDER; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS; URINE; VESICO-URETERAL REFLUX;

EID: 80052353311     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 10984275     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2011-1330     Document Type: Review

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