Single-Dose Daily Gentamicin Therapy in Urinary Tract Infection

Single-dose daily gentamicin therapy in urinary tract infection.

Patients with urinary tract infection were treated for 8 to 15 days with one daily intramuscular injection of 160 mg of gentamicin or 60 or 80 mg every 8 h. Ten of 11 patients treated with one injection daily were cured as compared with 8 of 10 patients treated with three injections daily. Urinary concentrations of gentamicin were 3.2 to 600 mug/ml in all 8-h collections in patients receiving o...

Single dose trimethoprim for urinary tract infection.

A randomised clinical trial of single dose trimethoprim against a seven day course of co-trimoxazole (trimethoprim/sulphamethoxazole) for the treatment of uncomplicated urinary tract infection was carried out in 106 children aged between 2 and 16 years. Of the 50 children with confirmed urinary tract infections who were followed up 48 hours after treatment with a single dose of trimethoprim all...

Asymptomatic Urinary Tract Infection in Pregnant Women

  Background and Objectives: Urinary tract infection is one of the most common bacterial infections in the human population, and more frequent infection during pregnancy. With notice to this point that most of urinary tract infections during pregnancy are asymptomatic, they could lead to serious complications such as prematurity, low-birth weight, hypertension, and higher fetal mortality rates...

Urinary-tract infection and low-dose nitrofurantoin.

Diagnosis and Antibiotic Resistance Distribution in Children with Urinary Tract Infection: A Single Center Experience

Background: Urinary tract infection is a common disease in childhood. The aim of this study was to determine the diagnostic performance of urinary analysis, assess the role of urine culture in determining its necessity and evaluate etiologic agents and antimicrobial resistance patterns in children with urinary tract infection.Methods: Our study was made by evaluating the patients who applied to...