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Table 4 Children with UTI diagnosis: clinical features

From: How Covid-19 changed the epidemiology of febrile urinary tract infections in children in the emergency department during the first outbreak

 

Period 1

Period 2

p value

Days of fever before ED visit

 1

62%

47%

0.02

 2

18%

23%

  > 2

20%

30%

Hospitalization

45.5%

63%

0.008

Type of germ

In urine culture

 E. coli

82.7%

74%

0.02

 P. aeruginosa

0.8%

6,8%

 E. faecalis

2.3%

5.5%

 Klebsiella pn

3.8%

4.1%

 Proteus

4.1%

2,7%

 Other

6.4%

6.8%