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 ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has named antimicrobial resistance as one of the world's major health threats. [1] Compared with patients living in the community, those living in ...

Doctors should think carefully before testing patients for a urinary tract infection (UTI) to avoid over-diagnosis and unnecessary antibiotic treatment, according to updated asymptomatic bacteriuria ...

One reason for not achieving better results in chronic bacteriuria, even after protracted antimicrobial therapy, may be failure to differentiate two patterns of recurrent infections – namely, relapse ...

DEAR MAYO CLINIC: As a woman in my mid-60s, I have been diagnosed with a urinary tract infection for the first time ever. I was surprised to find out that I don't need antibiotics because I don't have ...

Almost all women who exhibited symptoms of a urinary tract infection, but had a negative urine culture, actually had an infection, a small Belgian study found. The authors said that dysuria, frequency ...