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View Post: Antibiotic Resistant E. Coli Urinary Tract Infection
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9 Nov 2009 by Linda Fugate   ...
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View Post: Antibiotic prophylaxis modestly effective for recurrent UTI in ...
30 Oct 2009
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Long-term treatment with low-dose trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole is modestly effective in preventing urinary tract infections (UTI) in predisposed children, according to a report in The New England Journal of ...
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View Post: Antimicrobial Resistance of Uncomplicated Urinary Tract Infections ...
1 Apr 2008
ABBREVIATIONS: ATCC = American Type Culture Collection; IDSA = Infectious Disease Society of America; NCCLS = National Committee for Clinical Laboratory Standards; SXT/TMP = sulfamethoxazole/trimethoprim; UTI = urinary tract infections. ... Urinary tract infections (UTI) cause millions of clinical visits every year in the US, with over half of all women reporting at least one UTI in their lifetime.1 The organisms that cause these infections typically react well to a wide ...
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View Post: Post-Tranplant UTI Pathogens Shift Over Time - Renal and Urology News
17 Nov 2008
Home > Urology > Urinary Tract Infections (UTI) > Post-Tranplant UTI Pathogens Shift Over Time ... Another reason is that patients often receive prophylaxis with trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole (TMP/SMX), which covers gram-negative bacteria, not gram-positive bacteria such as Enterococcus. Dr. Raygada and his colleagues reviewed the medical records of 284 adults who received a kidney transplant between July 2001 and December 2007. The mean post-transplant follow-up was 1506 ...
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View Post: Differences in the pattern of antibiotic prescription profile and ...
24 Mar 2008 by Schneeberger, C., Stolk, RonaldP., DeVries,...  
Women with diabetes mellitus (DM) have a high incidence and complication rate of urinary tract infections (UTI's). Our aims were to compare current treatment strategies with respect to recurrence rates in women with DM compared to those ... A recurrence was defined as a second prescription for one of the above mentioned agents or a first with amoxicillin (clavulanic-acid), fluoroquinolones, or trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole (TMP/SMX) between 6 and 30 days after inclusion. ...
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View Post: Antimicrobial Susceptibility Pattern of Bacterial Pathogens ...
2 Feb 2009
The study describes the pathogens causing urinary tract infections (UTI) and the antimicrobial susceptibility pattern of health care-associated (HCA) and community-acquired (CA) isolates. ... The susceptibility rates of E. coli to ciprofloxacin, trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole (TMP-SMX), nitrofurantoin and ceftriaxone in HCA and CA isolates were 53.3 and 74.1%, 42.2 and 62.7%, 32.5 and 97.0%, and 62.3 and 92.7%, respectively. Extended-spectrum beta ...
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