Hypocitraturia and Ureaplasma urealyticum urinary tract infection in ...

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Urinary tract infection and pyelonephritis. In: Isselbacher KJ, Braunwald E, Wilson J el al., eds. Harrison's principles of internal medicine. McGraw-Hill, New York, ...
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positive culture only for Ureaplasma urealyticum (UU+/UC —) and 13 had positive urine culture only for conventional bacteria (UU—/UC+); 4 patients (not shown in the Table) had positive cultures for both Ureaplasma urealyticum and conventional bacteria. Sir, As expected, urine citrate excretion (median and ranges) Hypocitraturia is present in many patients with kidney stones was lower in 17 UC+ patients than in 30 UC— (1.56, [1]. Recognizable causes include concurrent metabolic acid- 0.15-3.2 vs. 3.03, 0.17-8.0, P