Treatment of Asymptomatic Bacteriuria Might Be Harmful
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Editorial Commentary: Treatment of Asymptomatic Bacteriuria Might Be Harmful
In this issue of Clinical Infectious Diseases, Cai et al present a follow-up study [1] to their previously published prospectively randomized cohort study in which female patients with recurrent urinary tract infection (UTI) were followed clinically, but also investigated microbiologically at regular visits up to 1 year [2]. One group (A) was not treated, and the other group (B) was treated if ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Clinical Infectious Diseases
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1058-4838,1537-6591
DOI: 10.1093/cid/civ698