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Cees van Nieuwkoop1, Tobias N Bonten, Jan W Van't Wout, Martin J Becker, Geert H Groeneveld, Casper L Jansen, Eric R van der Vorm, Ed P Ijzerman, Philip H Rothbarth, Etel M Termeer-Veringa, Ed J Kuijper, Jaap T van Dissel.
Abstract
In a prospective study involving 642 patients with febrile urinary tract infection (UTI), we found antimicrobial pretreatment (odds ratio [OR], 3.3), an indwelling urinary catheter (OR, 2.8), and malignancy (OR, 2.7) to be independent risk factors for bacteremia with a uropathogen that was not cultured or recognized in the urine. Although the diagnostic value of blood cultures has been questioned in UTI, we advocate performing blood cultures for patients with these risk factors.Entities:
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Year: 2010 PMID: 20420504 DOI: 10.1086/652657
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Clin Infect Dis ISSN: 1058-4838 Impact factor: 9.079