INCLINE VALLEY, NEV. -- Urinary tract infection is so common in children younger than age 2 years that a physician should almost always get a urine culture when working up a fever in a child that age, Dr. Nathan Kuppermann said at an emergency medicine conference sponsored by the University of California, Davis.
That includes getting a urine culture for febrile children younger than age 2 years who have a clinically documented viral infection, he said.
"Urinary tract infections in young febrile infants, particularly, are very common, and these viral infections are very common, so overlap occurs not infrequently," said Dr. Kuppermann, professor of emergency medicine ...