The diagnosis, evaluation and treatment of acute and recurrent pediatric urinary tract infections

Expert Review of Anti-Infective Therapy

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 81-90

  Becknell, Brian ^a   Schober, Megan ^a   Korbel, Lindsey ^b   Spencer, John David ^a  

^a NATIONWIDE CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

diagnosis; management; nephrology; pyelonephritis; urinary tract infection; urology

Indexed keywords

COTRIMOXAZOLE; NITROFURANTOIN; PROBIOTIC AGENT; SUCCIMER TC 99M;

ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ASYMPTOMATIC INFECTION; BACTEREMIA; CIRCUMCISION; CONSTIPATION; CRANBERRY JUICE; CYSTITIS; DIABETES MELLITUS; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; KIDNEY SCAR; LOWER URINARY TRACT SYMPTOM; MICROBIAL COLONIZATION; MICTURITION CYSTOURETHROGRAPHY; NEUROGENIC BLADDER; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PYELONEPHRITIS; PYURIA; RECURRENT INFECTION; REVIEW; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SICKLE CELL ANEMIA; SOCIOECONOMICS; SPINAL DYSRAPHISM; SYSTEMIC INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE SYNDROME; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; URINARY TRACT MALFORMATION; UROPATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; UROSEPSIS; VESICOURETERAL REFLUX; ACUTE DISEASE; CHILD; INFANT; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RECURRENT DISEASE; RISK FACTOR; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS;

ACUTE DISEASE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; RECURRENCE; RISK FACTORS; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS;

EID: 84916918853     PISSN: 14787210     EISSN: 17448336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/14787210.2015.986097     Document Type: Review

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