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LASZLO HOPP, MD
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Am J Dis Child. 1989;143(11):1262.

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Sir.—In the March 1989 issue of AJDC, Herzog¹ presented reports of 36 infants with positive urine culture during routine workup for acute illness. All these infants were uncircumcised, whereas this was true only for 32% of the control population. Of the 31 infants who underwent roentgenographic studies, 4 had grade II and 2 grade IV reflux, 1 had posterior urethral valve with hydronephrosis, and 1 had ureteropelvic junction obstruction and hydronephrosis. The authors concluded that noncircumcision is a highly significant risk factor for UTI in infants.

There is a recent surge of interest and controversy about the association of infantile UTI and periurethral bacterial flora with noncircumcision.^2-14 On one side of the spectrum circumcision is considered to be a prophylactic measure against UTI in infants (Wiswell and his collaborators^3,8,10,13,14), while on the other, the need to perform surgery on 96 to 98 infants to prevent two to . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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