URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS
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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.
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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.
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