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Acute Nosocomial Urinary Tract Infection in Children

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Martina Prelog*
Affiliation:
Department of Pediatrics, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria
Daniela Schiefecker
Affiliation:
Department of Pediatrics, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria
Manfred Fille
Affiliation:
Department of Hygiene, Microbiology and Social Medicine, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria
Andrea Brunner
Affiliation:
Department of Pathology, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria
Lothar Bernd Zimmerhackl
Affiliation:
Department of Pediatrics, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria
*
Department of Pediatrics, Innsbruck Medical University, Anichstr. 35, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria (Martina.Prelog@i-med.ac.at)

Abstract

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.

Type
Concise Communications
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2007

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