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Titel

Chronic Pyelonephritis

Ist Teil von

• The New England journal of medicine, 1968-08, Vol.279 (7), p.385-387

Ort / Verlag

Massachusetts Medical Society

Erscheinungsjahr

1968

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• To the Editor: The thesis that ". . . many examples of the lesion now called 'active chronic pyelonephritis' may be of nonbacterial origin," as proposed by Angell, Relman and Robbins in their paper in the Journal , June 13, 1968, p. 1303, would have been better supported if information had been provided indicating that the patients' urine samples were cultured anaerobically and aerobically and that mycoplasma organisms were sought by special cultural methods. May I suggest a moratorium on further papers purporting to prove or disprove the relation of "bacteria" to the pathologic entity of "active or inactive chronic . . . No extract is available for articles shorter than 400 words.