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The incidence of urinary tract infections in febrile children during a two-year period in Tehran, Iran

Yunes Panahi ^*    Fatemeh Beiraghdar    Yashar Moharamzad    Zahra Khalili Matinzadeh    Behzad Einollahi 

^* Research Center of Chemical Injuries; Trauma Research Center; Nephrology and Urology Research Center, Baqiyatallah Medical Sciences University, Tehran, P.O. Box 199 45/581, Islamic Republic of Iran

Correspondence to: Yunes Panahi, Baqiyatallah Medical Sciences University - Research Center of Chemical Injuries, Tehran, PO Box 199 45/581, Islamic Republic of Iran Email: yunespanahi{at}bmsu.ac.ir

Of 433 febrile children examined in the paediatric clinics of two university hospitals in Tehran, Iran, 39 (9%) children (27 girls and 12 boys) were diagnosed as having urinary tract infection in which Escherichia coli was the most frequently detected pathogen (84.6%). According to the voiding cystourethrogram, nine (75%) boys and 17 (63%) girls had urinary tract abnormalities. This result is slightly higher than seen in other reports from developing countries.

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