Asymptomatic Urinary Tract Infection in Premature Infants

Autor:	D. J. Guidry, Calvin W. Hoffpauir
Rok vydání:	1970
Předmět:	Pediatrics medicine.medical_specialty business.industry Urinary system Pediatrics Perinatology and Child Health medicine medicine.symptom business Infant newborn Asymptomatic
Zdroj:	Pediatrics. 46:128-130
ISSN:	1098-4275 0031-4005
DOI:	10.1542/peds.46.1.128
Popis:	Current evidence suggests that urinary tract infections (UTI) in infants often go unrecognized, that they receive inadequate treatment, and that the patient is seldom kept under observation for a sufficiently long period of time1. Detection of UTI is especially difficult in neonates where clinical symptoms may be entirely lacking, and in such cases diagnosis must depend on examination of the urine2-4. This is well illustrated by the two cases presented here where several bouts of pyuria and of bacteriuria were detected in asymptomatic premature infants. Both belonged to groups of randomly selected, premature infants whose urine was collected at regular intervals for either routine urinalysis and bacterial colony counts (Case 1) or for Addis sediment counts (Case 2).
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