Nephrolithiasis and urinary tract infections: 'The chicken or the egg' dilemma?

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 27, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 3982-3985

  Borghi, Loris ^a   Nouvenne, Antonio ^a   Meschi, Tiziana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

Author keywords

antibiotic resistance; infection stones; kidney stones; struvite; urinary tract infections

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM PHOSPHATE; STRUVITE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CHRONIC PYELONEPHRITIS; CONCURRENT INFECTION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HYPERCALCIURIA; KIDNEY COLIC; KLEBSIELLA; NEPHROLITHIASIS; PRIMARY HYPERPARATHYROIDISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEUS; PSEUDOMONAS; STREPTOCOCCUS; URETHRA OBSTRUCTION; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; URINE CULTURE;

BACTERIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEPHROLITHIASIS; URINARY CALCULI; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS;

EID: 84869387797     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: 14602385     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfs395     Document Type: Article

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