Managing uncomplicated urinary tract infection - Making sense out of resistance data

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 53, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1041-1042

  Gupta, Kalpana ^a   Hooton, Thomas M ^b   Miller, Loren ^c  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c HARBOR UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ANTIMICROBIAL THERAPY; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CYSTITIS; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; DRUG TREATMENT FAILURE; HUMAN; LETTER; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; CYSTITIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; PYELONEPHRITIS;

EID: 80054754488     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cid/cir637     Document Type: Letter

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