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Asymptomatic Bacteriuria is Harmless and Even Protective: Don't Treat if You Don't Have a Very Specific Reason
Björn Wullt1, Fredrik Sundén2, Magnus Grabe3
1Department of Microbiology and Immunology (MIG), Institute of Laboratory Medicine, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.
European Urology Focus
|July 22, 2018
Abstract:
Symptom-free bacterial colonization of the lower urinary tract in an otherwise healthy individual was long misunderstood. Our current understanding is based on solid research proving that asymptomatic bacteriuria (ABU) is harmless and even protective against symptomatic urinary tract infection episodes. Thus, ABU should not be treated in patients with the exception of before endosurgery and, until we have accumulated more knowledge, in pregnant women.