Approach to a positive urine culture in a patient without urinary symptoms.

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  2014

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  Infectious Disease Clinics of North America

• Publication date

  2014-03-01

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  Medicine

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  DOI 10.1016/j.idc.2013.09.005PMID 24484572PMCID PMC3912468
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