Asymptomatic bacteriuria: When the treatment is worse than the disease

Nature Reviews Urology

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 85-93

  Trautner, Barbara W ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEFALEXIN; CEFUROXIME; FOSFOMYCIN; NITROFURANTOIN; PIVMECILLINAM;

ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ASYMPTOMATIC BACTERIURIA; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HOST; HUMAN; JOINT PROSTHESIS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MEDICAL EDUCATION; NEUROGENIC BLADDER; NEUTROPENIA; NONHUMAN; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; UROLOGIC SURGERY;

BACTERIURIA; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES, UROLOGICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MEDICATION ERRORS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; UROLOGY;

EID: 84857033199     PISSN: 17594812     EISSN: 17594820     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrurol.2011.192     Document Type: Review

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