Pediatrics & Therapeutics
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Department of pediatrics, Ziv Medical Center, Lower Galilee, Israel

Biography

Doua B works at Department of pediatrics, Ziv Medical Center, Lower Galilee, Israel. Doua B has published more than 5 abstracts. Research interests are Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Neonatal Medicine, Reproductive Medicine, Endocrinology, Andrology, Pediatrics.

Publications

• Research Article   
  Laboratory and Imaging Characteristics of Children Suffering from Urinary Tract Infection from Infancy to Age Five Years Who Were Hospitalized in Pediatric Department in Ziv Medical Center Safed Children's Hospital in 2010-2019 in North of Isreal
  Author(s): Ehsan N*, Haia N, Doua B, Michael H, Boshra N, Hino B and Wael N
  
  Background: Urinary tract infections (UTIs) are a common and potentially serious bacterial infection of childhood. UTI is the most common cause of hospitalization in children with high fever especially in infancy, which is more common to be the source for bacteremia in this age. In infancy, the disease is more common in boys and the incidence in girls increases with age, it has been found that uncircumcised children have a higher incidence of urinary tract infection. 30% of children who have had the first infection of pyelonephritis (inflammation of the kidney tissue) will develop a recurrent urinary tract infection when the infection occurs in the first year of life. The most common bacteria to cause these infections are Escherichia coli (E-coli), later Gram-negative bacteria (-) such as Klebsiella pneumonia and Proteus mirabilis, and gram-positive (+) bacteria such as Enterococci. E.. View More»
  DOI: 10.35248/2161-0665.21.11.391

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