Prevalence of Asymptomatic Bacteriuria in Children: A Meta-Analysis
| Autor: | Charles B. Wessel, Nader Shaikh, Victor A. Osio, Jong H. Jeong |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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medicine.medical_specialty
business.industry Urinary system Prevalence Urine Bacteriuria bacterial infections and mycoses urologic and male genital diseases medicine.disease Asymptomatic female genital diseases and pregnancy complications Pyuria 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine 030225 pediatrics Meta-analysis Internal medicine Pediatrics Perinatology and Child Health Medicine 030212 general & internal medicine medicine.symptom business Asymptomatic bacteriuria |
| Zdroj: | The Journal of Pediatrics. 217:110-117.e4 |
| ISSN: | 0022-3476 |
| Popis: | Objective To determine the point prevalence of bacteriuria and bacteriuria without pyuria in asymptomatic children by a systematic review of the literature. Study design We searched MEDLINE and EMBASE for English-, French-, German-, Italian-, and Spanish-language articles. We included articles reporting data on bacteriuria in asymptomatic children up to 19 years of age who had urine collected by suprapubic bladder aspiration, bladder catheterization, or by 3 consecutive clean catch samples. Two independent reviewers assessed studies for inclusion and abstracted data. Results Fourteen studies (49 806 children) were included. The prevalence of asymptomatic bacteriuria was 0.37% (95% CI, 0.09-0.82) in boys and 0.47% (95% CI, 0.36-0.59) in girls. The corresponding values for asymptomatic bacteriuria without pyuria were 0.18% (95% CI, 0.02-0.51) and 0.38% (95% CI, 0.22-0.58), respectively. The subgroups with the highest prevalence of asymptomatic bacteriuria were uncircumcised males 2 years of age. In males, the prevalence of asymptomatic bacteriuria after infancy was 0.08% (95% CI, 0.01-0.37). The median duration of asymptomatic bacteriuria in untreated boys and girls, from the one study reporting this outcome, was 1.5 and 2 months, respectively. Conclusions Some clinicians are concerned that when a preverbal child with asymptomatic bacteriuria develops a nonlocalizing febrile illness and presents for evaluation, they may be mistakenly diagnosed as having a urinary tract infection (UTI). Given that the prevalence of asymptomatic bacteriuria is considerably lower than the prevalence of UTI in most subgroups examined, this will occur extremely rarely. These data suggest that the current definition of UTI should be revisited. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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