Title: Pediatric urinary tract infectionSignificance of vaginal bacteria
Abstract: Vaginal and introital flora in children with recurrent urinary tract infections werestudied in 135 children. When the urine culture was positive, the same organism was cultured in the vagina in a majority of cases. When the urine culture was negative, a urinary pathogen was cultured in more than half of the vaginas. In these patients 50 per cent had a recurrence of urinary tract infection with the same organism previously cultured from the vagina. Therefore, knowledge of introital and vaginal flora is important in recurrent infections in the pediatric age group.
Publication Year: 1974
Publication Date: 1974-05-01
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['crossref', 'pubmed']
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