This Article  • References  • Full text PDF  • Send to a friend  • Save in My Folder  • Save to citation manager  • Permissions  Citing Articles  • Citation map  • Citing articles on HighWire  • Citing articles on Web of Science (95)  • Contact me when this article is cited  Related Content  • Similar articles in this journal  Social Bookmarking   What's this?

Study in Urinary Tract Infection

LOWELL A. RANTZ, M.D.

Arch Intern Med. 1962;109(1):37-42.

	Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text PDF and any section headings.

Escherichia coli is the most common cause of infection of the urinary tract, particularly when obstruction to the free flow of urine is absent.¹ Investigation of this group of organisms has been simplified and rationalized by the studies of Kauffmann² who proposed a serological classification based on the presence in these bacteria of heatstable O antigens and of heat-labile K antigens. This technique has rarely been applied to the investigation of human illness because suitable specific sera have not been available. Work in this field has concerned itself largely with the identification of possible enteropathogenic E. coli. The exceedingly important problems surrounding infection of the urinary tract have not been attacked with the assistance of this potentially valuable tool.

Plans were made recently for a long-term comprehensive study of urinary tract infection. Coincidentally, sera suitable for the identification of O groups of E. coli became available through the . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
PALO ALTO, CALIF.

From the Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication Nov. 29, 1960.

Supported by a grant, No. H 700, from the National Heart Institute and a grant, No. E 3638, from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, of the National Institutes of Health.

CiteULike    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    Twitter     What's this?