Single-dose amikacin treatment of first childhood E coli lower urinary tract infections: Wallen L, Zeller WP, Goessler M J Pediatrics 103:316–319 Aug 1983

✍ Scribed by Judith Brillman

• Book ID: 104312809
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1984
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 101 KB
• Volume: 13
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1097-6760
• DOI: 10.1016/s0196-0644(84)80307-8

✦ Synopsis

sented by the study group, multiple-dose therapy with TMP-SMZ results in fewer relapses in women with uncomplicated cystitis than does single-dose therapy, that pretreatment laboratory studies are not routinely necessary before empiric therapy, and that follow-up laboratory studies can be reserved for patients with persistent or recurrent symptoms. [Editor's note: The authors imply an interesting idea: because symptoms of a UTI and vaginitis often overlap, microscopic examination of vaginal fluid may be more appropriate for women with symptoms of dysuria, urgency, and frequency than is the standard urinalysis.] Martin E Ogle, MD

GENITOURINARY INFECTIONS