Symptomatic urinary tract infection in women in primary health care. Bacteriological, clinical and diagnostic aspects in relation to host response to infection.

Objective: To evaluate rapid diagnostic tests for bacteriuria in women with symptoms of urinary tract infection (UTI), and to analyse bacteriological and clinical findings in relation to host response to infection.

Design: Prospective study of symptomatic UTI in women.

Setting: Primary health care centres.

Short-term self-treatment of travellers' diarrhoea with norfloxacin: a placebo-controlled study.

In a randomized, double blind, placebo-controlled, multicentre trial, 447 travellers to Africa, Asia or Latin America started three days treatment with norfloxacin 400 mg bd or placebo within 24 h after the onset of travellers' diarrhoea. One hundred and four subjects developed diarrhoea and of those 94 (46 in the norfloxacin group and 48 in the placebo group) could be analysed for efficacy. By the last treatment day, 34 patients in the norfloxacin and 18 in the placebo group were cured (P = 0.

Norfloxacin versus placebo for prophylaxis against travellers' diarrhoea.

In a randomized, double blind study, 127 subjects travelling to countries outside Northern Europe were given norfloxacin 200 mg or placebo bid as prophylaxis against diarrhoea. Fifty-six subjects randomized to norfloxacin and 59 to placebo fulfilled criteria for evaluation of efficacy and of those, respectively six and 20 (P = 0.0006) developed diarrhoea.