URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS

DEFINITIONS

• The term urinary tract infection encompasses a variety of clinical entities.
  • Cystitis: symptomatic disease of the bladder
  • Pyelonephritis: symptomatic disease of the kidney
  • Prostatitis: symptomatic disease of the prostate
  • Asymptomatic bacteriuria (ASB): asymptomatic infection identified by a screening urine culture unrelated to the genitourinary tract
• Uncomplicated UTI refers to acute disease in nonpregnant outpatient women without anatomic abnormalities or instrumentation of the urinary tract; complicated UTI refers to all other types of UTI.