890 Urinary Tract Infection and Predisposing Factors in Children
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Urinary Tract Infection in Children
Urinary tract infection (UTI) is a common problem in childhood and the primary health care practitioner is usually the frontline in diagnosis and management. The development of better imaging techniques, revised understanding of host defencebacterial virulence interactions in UTI, together with the results of several longitudinal studies on the implications of renal scarring in children, have p...
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عنوان ژورنال: Archives of Disease in Childhood
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0003-9888,1468-2044
DOI: 10.1136/archdischild-2012-302724.0890