What Urinary Colony Count Indicates a Urinary Tract Infection in Children?
William Primack, Timothy Bukowski, Richard Sutherland, Lisa Gravens-Mueller, Myra Carpenter, William Primack, Timothy Bukowski, Richard Sutherland, Lisa Gravens-Mueller, Myra Carpenter
Abstract
Post-hoc analysis of the Randomized Intervention for Children with Vesicoureteral Reflux study suggests that, in concordance with European guidelines, using bacteriologic criterion of ≥10 000 colony forming units/mL of a single organism does not decrease diagnostic specificity of an urinary tract infection in children aged 2 months to 6 years in a properly collected urine if symptoms/fever and pyuria are present.
Trial registration: ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT00405704.
Keywords: guideline; pyuria; suprapubic aspiration; urinary catheterization; vesicoureteral reflux.
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Source: PubMed