Asympatomatic bacteriuria.

Asymptomatic bacteriuria in schoolchildren

Newcastle Asymptomatic Bacteriuria Research Group (1975). Archives of Disease in Childhood, 50, 90. Asymptomatic bacteriuria in schoolchildren in Newcastle upon Tyne. A screening survey for asymptomatic bacteriuria (ASB) in 13 464 schoolgirls aged 4 to 18 years in Newcastle upon Tyne showed an overall prevalence of 1 *9%. In girls aged 4 to 6 years it was 1 4%, in girls aged 7 to 11 years it wa...

Asymptomatic bacteriuria opyright

Recent findings The reported prevalence of bacteriuria is higher in some developing countries than generally reported for developed countries, but reasons for this remain unclear. Clinical studies of young women, renal transplant patients, and patients undergoing minor nontraumatic urologic procedures confirm that treatment of asymptomatic bacteriuria for these populations is not beneficial, an...

Asymptomatic bacteriuria in adults.

A common dilemma in clinical medicine is whether to treat asymptomatic patients who present with bacteria in their urine. There are few scenarios in which antibiotic treatment of asymptomatic bacteruria has been shown to improve patient outcomes. Because of increasing antimicrobial resistance, it is important not to treat patients with asymptomatic bacteriuria unless there is evidence of potent...

Screening for bacteriuria.

Bacteriuria in children.

A total of 231 hospitalised children were studied for bacteriuria; they were divided into symptomatic and asymptomatic groups. The cases with significant bacteriuria (10 organisms/mi of urine) only were considered positive. Five percent of the total cases had significant bacteriuria, a large majority of them being girls. In the symptomatic group the frequency of UTI was 6% while in the asymptom...