Biomarkers in urinary tract infections - which ones are suitable for diagnostics and follow-up?

Abstract: Introduction: Urinary tract infections (UTIs) are one of the most common infections worldwide. Under special circumstances, clinicians must rely on laboratory findings, which might have a weak predicting value, misguiding the practitioners and leading to incorrect diagnosis and overuse of antibiotics. Therefore, there is an urgent need for reliable biomarkers in UTIs.Methods: We performed a literature search for biomarkers used in UTIs from January 1999 until May 2020. We used "urinary tract infection" and "biomarker" as the main key words in the PubMed, Medline and Cochrane databases. After peer review, we excluded the duplicates and identified the suitable articles, from which we collected the data and divided the available biomarkers into 5 groups: i) conventional markers; ii) promising, thoroughly studied biomarkers; iii) promising biomarkers that need further studies; iv) biomarkers of unknown significance; v) controversial, not useful markers.Results: We found 131 article...

Object Details

• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Biomarkers in urinary tract infections - which ones are suitable for diagnostics and follow-up? ; volume:8 ; day:26 ; month:11 ; year:2020 ; GMS infectious diseases ; 8 (26.11.2020)

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Medizin, Gesundheit

Contributors, Places and Time

• Creator: Horváth, József ; Wullt, Björn ; Naber, Kurt ; Köves, Béla

Further information

• DOI: 10.3205/id000068
• URN: urn:nbn:de:0183-id0000683
• Rights: Open Access; Open Access; Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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