[New approaches to the treatment of urinary tract infection]

A revision of the therapeutic alternatives actually available is carried out for the treatment of urinary tract infections in the non pregnant woman. It stands out the importance of differentiats between the complicated infections from the ones which are not. It is related that indications and results are obtained with the administration of one single dose. The causes and diagnoses as well as the therapeutic methods are empasized in the cases of persistent or recurrent infections.