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Long-term antibiotics for the prevention of recurrent urinary tract infection in children: a systematic review and meta-analysis
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- Published on: 22 March 2016
- Published on: 22 March 2016cranberry juice might be a safe alternative to antibiotic prophylaxisShow More
The observation that "there is no robust evidence that prophylactic antibiotics reduce the incidence of recurrence of urinary tract infection in children"(1), and that, instead, bacterial resistance can be as high as 67-100% in the antibiotic prophylaxis group as opposed to 0-39% in patients who do not receive antibiotic prophylaxis(1), should be the basis for the use of alternative strategies to prevent recurrence of urin...
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