OBJECTIVES: While urine sampling is necessary in the diagnosis of urinary tract infection and electrolyte disturbances, the collection of urine in neonates and non-toilet-trained children is often difficult.

Importance: Health care–associated infections (HAIs) account for a large proportion of the harms caused by health care and are associated with high costs. Better evaluation of the costs of these infections could help providers and payers to justify investing in prevention.

BACKGROUND: The Study for Monitoring Antimicrobial Resistance Trends is an ongoing global surveillance program that has monitored the susceptibilities of Gram-negative bacilli from inpatient urinary tract infections (UTIs) since late 2009.

INTRODUCTION: Urinary tract infection (UTI) is one of the most frequent infections in geriatric patients.

The urinary tract is the most common site of bacterial infections in renal transplant recipients.

PURPOSE: Urinary tract infection (UTI) often causes bacteremia, resulting in shock.

Objectives: Classically, presence of fever ≥38.0°C is used to distinguish pyelonephritis from cystitis.

The development of ischemic gangrene of the penis following implantation of prosthesis is unusual, and very few cases are available in the literature.

Chronic lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS), such as urgency and incontinence, are common, especially among the elderly, but their etiology is often obscure.

Sitafloxacin (STFX, Gracevit 50mg, fine granules 10%), a new quinolone antibacterial agent, was approved in January 2008, and the use-results survey was carried out over the 2 years between December 2008 and November 2010.

BERKELEY, CA (UroToday.com) - A meta-analysis published in the June 2013 issue of Journal of Urology  has determined, for the first time, the risk of urinary tract infection (UTI) over the lifetimes of males.^[1]

OBJECTIVES: To determine how often older women presenting to an emergency department (ED) are diagnosed with a urinary tract infection (UTI) without a positive urine culture and to investigate whether collecting urine by catheterization instead of clean catch improves the accuracy of the urinalysis (UA).

Sterile CSF pleocytosis occurs in febrile infants with UTI.

OBJECTIVE: To assess the usefulness of procalcitonin (PCT) as a marker for predicting dilating (grades III-V) vesicoureteral reflux (VUR) in young children with a first febrile urinary tract infection (UTI).

OBJECTIVES: The emergence of antibiotic-resistant urinary pathogens represents a public health care concern.

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the risk factors for recurrent urinary tract infections (UTIs) in infants with vesicoureteral reflux (VUR) and whether bacterial pathogen affected breakthrough UTI or not.

AIM: Whether or not voiding cystourethrography (VCUG) should be performed after a first episode of urinary tract infection (UTI) remains a matter of debate.

BACKGROUND: Urinary tract infection (UTI) is a frequent, serious complication in kidney allograft recipients.

BACKGROUND: Urinary tract infection (UTI) in children may be associated with long-term complications that could be prevented by prompt treatment.

OBJECTIVE: Schizophrenia is associated with immune abnormalities and increased mortality from infectious diseases.