Urinary Tract Infections

Research conducted at Baskent University has provided new information about urinary tract infections

Published in Blood Weekly, August 23rd, 2007

"Urinary tract infection (UTI) is the most common infectious complication following renal transplantation. The purposes of this study were to determine the causative agents of UTIs among renal transplant recipients and to compare the antibiotic susceptibilities of Escherichia coli strains isolated from-renal transplant recipients and complicated community-acquired UTIs," investigators in Ankara, Turkey report.

"We evaluated 75 episodes of 63 recipients with confirmed UTI who underwent transplantation during the period 1981 to 2006 at our center. Medical records of the patients were reviewed retrospectively. To compare the susceptibility rates of E coh, 226 isolates from...

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Source: Blood Weekly (2007-08-23)

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