[Ourexperiences with clinical methods for localization of urinary tract infections]

On 35 patients with chronical relapsing urinary tact infections with different forms of the clinical course 3 localisation methods for the differentiation of infections of the upper and lower urinary tract, respectively, were evaluated. The results have shown that the bladder washout method was more reliable than the new kidney washout method. The latter method has, however, certain advantages, such as its simplicity and the catheterless accomplishment. The simplest method is the immunofluorescence investigation of the urinary sediment on the germs coated with antibodies. This method, however, still contains several unclear sources of error.