What Urinary Colony Count Indicates a Urinary Tract Infection in Children?
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Myra A. Carpenter; Lisa Gravens-Mueller; William A. Primack; Richard W. Sutherland; Timothy P. Bukowski
- Source
- The Journal of Pediatrics. 191:259-261.e1
- Subject
- Male
medicine.medical_specialty
Bacteriuria
Fever
Urinary system
medicine.medical_treatment
Concordance
Colony Count, Microbial
Urology
Urine
Vesicoureteral reflux
Article
Urinary catheterization
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Suprapubic aspiration
030225 pediatrics
Internal medicine
medicine
Humans
030212 general & internal medicine
Child
Pyuria
business.industry
Infant
Guideline
Reference Standards
medicine.disease
Child, Preschool
Urinary Tract Infections
Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health
Female
medicine.symptom
business
- Language
- ISSN
- 0022-3476
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. Trial Registration ClinicalTrials.gov : NCT00405704.