Asymptomatic bacteriuria—clinical significance and management
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Asymptomatic bacteriuria--clinical significance and management.
The clinical significance and management of asymptomatic bacteriuria (ASB) differs according to different groups of patients. ASB requires antibiotic treatment in pregnant women, children aged 5-6 years and prior to invasive genitourinary procedures. However, there is a consensus that ASB in the elderly, healthy school girls and young women, diabetic women and patients with indwelling catheters...
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عنوان ژورنال: Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation
سال: 2001
ISSN: 1460-2385,0931-0509
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/16.suppl_6.135