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- Published on: 23 August 2004
- Published on: 30 June 2004
- Published on: 23 August 2004Re: Definition of "UTI"Show More
Dear Editor,
I thank Dr Fenton for his interest and insightful comment. It seems that there has been a printing mistake. The criteria for diagnosis of urinary tract infection was >100,000 bacteria per ml in mid stream urine specimen, and not, >100 bacteria per ml, as was mistakenly published.
The criteria for diagnosis of UTI was any bacteria in suprapubic aspirate (as per AAP guidelines[1]), an...
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None declared. - Published on: 30 June 2004Definition of "UTI"Show More
Dear Editor
Zamir et al. appear to have diagnosed urine infection using the unconventional criteria of fever plus:
1) >100 bacteria per mL in a mid-stream urine specimen, or
2) Any bacteria in a catheter specimen or suprapubic aspirateMost clinicians would only be convinced by mid-stream samples containing at least 10,000 bacteria (or colony forming...
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