Johns Hopkins ABX Guide
Urinary Tract Infection, Complicated (UTI)
Urinary Tract Infection, Complicated (UTI) is a topic covered in the Johns Hopkins ABX Guide.
To view the entire topic, please log in or purchase a subscription.
Pediatrics Central™ is an all-in-one application that puts valuable medical information, via your mobile device or the web, in the hands of clinicians treating infants, children, and adolescents. Explore these free sample topics:
-- The first section of this topic is shown below --
PATHOGENS
- Among the most common, resistant strains frequently encountered:
- Enterobacteriaceae
- Pseudomonas aeruginosa
- Acinetobacterspp.
- Less common:
- MSSA or MRSA
- Most due to invasion of urinary tract (secondary to catheters, stents)
- Consider presentations of staphylococcal bacteremia with findings of S. aureus in urine.
- Enterococcus spp. (including VRE)
- Candida spp.
- Fastidious organisms possible.
- MSSA or MRSA
- Infections may be polymicrobial, especially if chronic urinary catheter or stents are present.
-- To view the remaining sections of this topic, please log in or purchase a subscription --
PATHOGENS
- Among the most common, resistant strains frequently encountered:
- Enterobacteriaceae
- Pseudomonas aeruginosa
- Acinetobacterspp.
- Less common:
- MSSA or MRSA
- Most due to invasion of urinary tract (secondary to catheters, stents)
- Consider presentations of staphylococcal bacteremia with findings of S. aureus in urine.
- Enterococcus spp. (including VRE)
- Candida spp.
- Fastidious organisms possible.
- MSSA or MRSA
- Infections may be polymicrobial, especially if chronic urinary catheter or stents are present.
There's more to see -- the rest of this topic is available only to subscribers.
Last updated: May 16, 2017
Citation
Melia, Michael, and James DeMaio. "Urinary Tract Infection, Complicated (UTI)." Johns Hopkins ABX Guide, The Johns Hopkins University, 2017. Pediatrics Central, peds.unboundmedicine.com/pedscentral/view/Johns_Hopkins_ABX_Guide/540573/all/Urinary_Tract_Infection_Complicated__UTI_.
Melia M, DeMaio J. Urinary Tract Infection, Complicated (UTI). Johns Hopkins ABX Guide. The Johns Hopkins University; 2017. https://peds.unboundmedicine.com/pedscentral/view/Johns_Hopkins_ABX_Guide/540573/all/Urinary_Tract_Infection_Complicated__UTI_. Accessed July 1, 2022.
Melia, M., & DeMaio, J. (2017). Urinary Tract Infection, Complicated (UTI). In Johns Hopkins ABX Guide. The Johns Hopkins University. https://peds.unboundmedicine.com/pedscentral/view/Johns_Hopkins_ABX_Guide/540573/all/Urinary_Tract_Infection_Complicated__UTI_
Melia M, DeMaio J. Urinary Tract Infection, Complicated (UTI) [Internet]. In: Johns Hopkins ABX Guide. The Johns Hopkins University; 2017. [cited 2022 July 01]. Available from: https://peds.unboundmedicine.com/pedscentral/view/Johns_Hopkins_ABX_Guide/540573/all/Urinary_Tract_Infection_Complicated__UTI_.
* Article titles in AMA citation format should be in sentence-case
TY - ELEC
T1 - Urinary Tract Infection, Complicated (UTI)
ID - 540573
A1 - Melia,Michael,M.D.
AU - DeMaio,James,M.D.
Y1 - 2017/05/16/
BT - Johns Hopkins ABX Guide
UR - https://peds.unboundmedicine.com/pedscentral/view/Johns_Hopkins_ABX_Guide/540573/all/Urinary_Tract_Infection_Complicated__UTI_
PB - The Johns Hopkins University
DB - Pediatrics Central
DP - Unbound Medicine
ER -
