Guidelines for Urinary Tract Infection Specimen Collection

Infections of the renal pelvis (pyelitis) and kidney (pyelonephritis) are the most common ______. The infections can be acute or can be recurrent with chronic inflammatory damage. Asymptomatic bacteriuria occurs in pregnant women

Upper UTI are most commonly ______ (i.e., infections originate in the urinary bladder and ascend through the ureters to the kidneys)

Urinary tract infections are sometimes divided into ______ and complicated categories. Uncomplicated infection is acute cystitis or pyelonephritis in a young woman without underlying urinary tract or systemic disease

Upper UTIs less commonly result from ______ spread of bacteria into the renal cortex in patients with septicemia. Abscesses or acute pyelonephritis are common manifestations

If the diagnosis is ______, empiric antimicrobial therapy can be instituted without resorting to a culture, because E.