One of the most common infections treated by antibiotics is a urinary tract infection (UTI). Treatment guidelines are issued for uncomplicated and complicated cases. When there are bacteria in the ...

Asymptomatic bacteriuria occurs when bacteria is present in a voided urine sample. It’s caused by bacterial colonization of the urinary tract. Nonetheless, there’s good reason to be concerned about ...

PYELONEPHRITIS is a common and often severe complication of diabetes mellitus. It is generally believed that pyelonephritis occurs more frequently among diabetic than among nondiabetic persons. 1–3 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . For the study, the researchers surveyed 551 primary care clinicians in the United States from June 1, 2018, to ...

Receipt of a patient-centered educational leaflet decreases the desire to take antibiotics for asymptomatic bacteriuria (ASB) ...

When used correctly, pitocin can be very helpful for progressing labor. Screening for asymptomatic bacteriuria may not lead to better outcomes among pregnant women and exposes them to unnecessary ...

Systematic reviews on screening and treating asymptomatic bacteriuria in pregnancy found very low-quality evidence for a modest reduction in pyelonephritis among pregnant women and the number of ...

SIGNIFICANT bacteriuria, defined as more than 100,000 pathogenic bacteria per milliliter of urine, has been a surprisingly frequent finding in surveys of ward and clinic patients of a city hospital in ...

All of this disproportionately affects the elderly. In a 2023 study of patients with a median age of 75, approximately 30% of ...

Asymptomatic bacteriuria is quite a common disease whose frequency varies among different populations. This depends mostly on the age, sex and the underlying disorders pre-existing in the person. The ...