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Acute nosocomial urinary tract infection in children.

Prelog M, Schiefecker D, Fille M, Brunner A, Bernd Zimmerhackl L

Department of Pediatrics, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria. Martina.Prelog@i-med.ac.at

The spectrum and antimicrobial susceptibilities of pathogens causing acute nosocomial urinary tract infection in hospitalized pediatric patients were revealed to be heterogeneous. Therefore, to avoid the failure of empirical antimicrobial therapy in these patients, underlying disease and previous antimicrobial treatment have to be considered.

Published 10 July 2007 in Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol, 28(8): 1019-23.
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