Abstract
Urinary tract infections (UTIs) are conditions frequently complained by women both
in the general population and in the hospital setting. Indeed it has been estimated
that one woman out of three will experience at least an episode of UTI during lifetime.
A comprehensive literature review of published experimental and clinical studies of
UTI was carried out at the University of Insubria electronic library (SFX Bicocca-Insubria)
with cross-search of seven different medical databases (AMED, BIOSIS Previews on Web
of Knowledge, Cochrane Library, Embase and Medline on Web of Knowledge, OvidSP and
PubMed). We aimed to draw a clinical guideline addressed to the management of UTI,
based on the most recent evidence.
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Article info
Publication history
Published online: February 14, 2011
Accepted:
January 26,
2011
Received in revised form:
January 5,
2011
Received:
October 28,
2010
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