Bacterial Aetiology and Antibiotic Resistance Pattern of Community-Acquired Urinary Tract Infections in Children in a Tertiary Care Hospital in Bangladesh

Abstract

Background: Urinary tract infections (UTIs)

Evaluating the Predictive Efficacy of Dipstick Urinalysis for Detecting Urinary Tract Infections in Febrile Children Under Five Years of Age at Federal Medical Centre, Owerri, Imo State, Nigeria

“…(Table 5). [59][60][61][62][63][64]. The low sensitivity of leucocyte esterase test could have been due to the low concentration of pyuria in majority of the study participants; similarly the low sensitivity of the nitrite observed in this study may have been due to the use of random urine specimen for analysis as long bladder incubation period is required for conversion of dietary nitrates to nitrites.…”