Grey Zones in the Field of Urinary Tract Infections

T E Bjerklund Johansen; Gernot Bonkat; Tommaso Cai; Zafer Tandogdu; Florian Wagenlehner; Magnus Grabe

doi:10.1016/j.euf.2016.03.012

Grey Zones in the Field of Urinary Tract Infections

Eur Urol Focus. 2016 Oct;2(4):460-462. doi: 10.1016/j.euf.2016.03.012. Epub 2016 Apr 13.

Authors

T E Bjerklund Johansen¹, Gernot Bonkat², Tommaso Cai³, Zafer Tandogdu⁴, Florian Wagenlehner⁵, Magnus Grabe⁶

Affiliations

¹ Department of Urology, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway; Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark. Electronic address: tebj@ki.au.dk.
² Department of Urology, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
³ Department of Urology, Santa Chiara Regional Hospital, Trento, Italy.
⁴ Northern Institute for Cancer Research, Newcastle University, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK.
⁵ Department of Urology, Paediatric Urology and Andrology, Justus-Liebig-University, Giessen, Germany.
⁶ Department of Translational Medicine, Division of Urological Cancer, University of Lund, Lund, Sweden.

PMID: 28723480
DOI: 10.1016/j.euf.2016.03.012

Abstract

Urinary tract infections are a very common clinical problem with various knowledge gaps requiring urgent attention in areas including pathophysiology, diagnosis, antibiotic resistance, and prophylaxis. These grey zones preclude optimal management of urologic patients.