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Leonard Leibovici, MD; Gershon Alpert, MD; Arie Laor, MD; Ofra Kalter-Leibovici, MD; Yehuda L. Danon, MD

Arch Intern Med. 1987;147(2):345-347.

Abstract
• A group of 147 young women with symptomatic urinary tract infection (UTI) were compared with a control group of 105 symptom-free young women belonging to the same population. On logistic-regression analysis, sexual activity was the only significant and independent behavioral difference between the groups (87% of women with UTI were sexually active vs 32.7% of the control group). Of the 147 episodes of UTI, only 28.9% occurred within 24 hours of sexual intercourse; of 24 episodes that occurred during follow-up, the percentage that occurred within 24 hours of intercourse was 33.3%. This finding is in discordance with the close temporal association between UTI and sexual intercourse reported in previous studies.

(Arch Intern Med 1987;147:345-347)

Author Affiliations
From the Israel Defence Forces Medical Corps (Drs Leibovici, Alpert, Laor, and Danon); Departments of Internal Medicine "B" (Dr Kalter-Leibovici) and Pediatrics (Drs Alpert and Danon), Beilinson Medical Center, Petah Tiqva, Israel; and Tel Aviv (Israel) University Sackler School of Medicine (Drs Leibovici, Alpert, and Danon).

Footnotes
Accepted for publication July 1, 1986.

Read in part before the Fourth International Symposium on Pyelonephritis, Gothenburg, Sweden, June 1986.

Reprint requests to Department of Internal Medicine "B," Beilinson Medical Center, 49 100 Petah Tiqva, Israel (Dr Leibovici).

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