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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
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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