Biomarkers for febrile urinary tract infection in children

Biomarkers for febrile urinary tract infection in children

BackgroundThe current reference standard for pediatric urinary tract infection (UTI) screening, the leukocyte esterase (LE) dipstick test, has suboptimal accuracy. The objective of this study was to compare the accuracy of novel urinary biomarkers to that of the LE test.MethodsWe prospectively enrol...

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Main Authors: Nader Shaikh, Marcia Kurs-Lasky, Hui Liu, Vinod Rajakumar, Heba Qureini, Isabella O. Conway, Matthew C. Lee, Sojin Lee
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2023-05-01
Series:Frontiers in Pediatrics
Subjects:
urinary tract infection (UTI)
diagnostic accuracy
biomarker
infectious disease
microbiome
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fped.2023.1163546/full

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