What Urinary Colony Count Indicates a Urinary Tract Infection in Children?

Primack, William; Bukowski, Timothy; Sutherland, Richard; Gravens-Mueller, Lisa; Carpenter, Myra · J Pediatr · 2017

rct · Level II

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Abstract

Post-hoc analysis of the Randomized Intervention for Children with Vesicoureteral Reflux study suggests that, in concordance with European guidelines, using bacteriologic criterion of ≥10 000 colony forming units/mL of a single organism does not decrease diagnostic specificity of an urinary tract infection in children aged 2 months to 6 years in a properly collected urine if symptoms/fever and pyuria are present. ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT00405704.

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