Journal of Nephrology & Therapeutics

Soluble Nitrofurans in Recurrent Urinary Tract Infections: Unexpected Findings from 2014 Latvian Study

Abstract

Vladimirs Strazdins and Harijs Cernevskis

Antimicrobial resistance is one of the major global burdens and challenging the advancements in biomedical research. Urinary Tract Infection (UTI) is one of that kind, which is caused by bacteria, fungi and or virus. The treatment options also vary based on the cause, antibiotics are recommended for bacterial UTI whereas antivirals are effective against fungal/viral UTI. The recent findings uncovered the side effects of fluoroquinolones in empiric UTI treatment. Hence, re-evaluation of efficacy profiles of current empiric UTI treatment with nitrofuran derivates (NFD) is necessary.