In this installment of the Paucis Verbis (In a Few Words) e-card series, the topic is Urinary Tract Infection. UTIs are one of the most common infections that we treat in the Emergency Department.
San Francisco General Hospital's
2008 antibiogram for urinary bacteria
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E. coli isolates at SFGH have a resistance rate to TMP-SMX and ciprofloxacin of 32% and 15%, respectively.