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Catheter-obtained, Enterococcus and Proteus positive urine cultures may represent mostly contamination or asymptomatic bacteriuria in infants <90 days.

Dvir GattIdan LendnerShalom Ben-Shimol
Published in: Infectious diseases (London, England) (2021)
Urine cultures in infants should be obtained by SPA, since catheter-obtained, Enterococcus and Proteus positive cultures may represent contamination or asymptomatic bacteriuria, rather than true UTI.
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