Challenging the current dogma of using antibiotics for urinary tract infections

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Challenging the current dogma of using antibiotics for urinary tract infections

26 February 2020

Arlo Upton

Wednesday 26 February 2020, 12:00 AM

Eleanor of Aquitaine lived a long and eventful life despite a lack of antibiotics

FROM THE LAB

Patients with growth of bacteria on urine culture are often treated with antibiotics. This article explores whether this is always in the patient’s best interests

Key points, Using antibiotics to treat bacteriuria can have unintended consequences, including killing the protective urinary microbiome and increasing resistant

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