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}}</ref><ref>Saez-Llorens X. et al. [http://www.cirp.org/library/disease/UTI/llorens/ Bacterial contamination rates for non-clean-catch and clean-catch midstream urine collections in uncircumcised boys]. From the Department of Pediatrics. Hospital Nacional de Ninos, San Jose, Costa Rica, and the Department of Pediatrics, the Children's Medical Center of the University of Virginia, Charlottesville VA.</ref> McCracken recommends investigation with radiographic and/or sonography.<ref name="ginsburg uti"/>
}}</ref><ref name="Saez-Llorens 1989">{{REFjournal
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|init=X
|last2=Umana
|first2=Maria A.
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|last3=Odio
|first3=Carla M.
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|init4=Lohr
|first4=Jacob A.
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|title=Bacterial contamination rates for non-clean-catch and clean-catch midstream urine collections in uncircumcised boys
|publisher=Department of Pediatrics. Hospital Nacional de Ninos, San Jose, Costa Rica, and Department of Pediatrics, the Children's Medical Center of the {{UNI|University of Virginia|UVA}}, Charlottesville, {{USSC|VA}}
|journal=J Pediatr
|date=1989
|volume=114
|issue=1
|pages=93-5
}}</ref> McCracken recommends investigation with radiographic and/or sonography.<ref name="ginsburg uti"/>


A recent study of mice indicates that p-fimbriated ''Escherichia Col''i, the organism responsible for about 85% of UTI, is capable of burrowing into the deeper tissue of the bladder<ref>{{REFjournal
A recent study of mice indicates that p-fimbriated ''Escherichia Col''i, the organism responsible for about 85% of UTI, is capable of burrowing into the deeper tissue of the bladder<ref>{{REFjournal
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}}</ref> There is a significant false-positive rate in diagnosing UTI when urine cultures alone are used.<ref name="Mueller 1997"/><ref>Saez-Llorens X. et al. [http://www.cirp.org/library/disease/UTI/llorens/ Bacterial contamination rates for non-clean-catch and clean-catch midstream urine collections in uncircumcised boys]. From the Department of Pediatrics. Hospital Nacional de Ninos, San Jose, Costa Rica, and the Department of Pediatrics, the Children's Medical Center of the University of Virginia, Charlottesville VA.</ref> This criticism was addressed to some extent in Wiswell's second review.<ref name="Wiswell 1986"/>
}}</ref> There is a significant false-positive rate in diagnosing UTI when urine cultures alone are used.<ref name="Mueller 1997"/><ref name="Saez-Llorens 1989"/> This criticism was addressed to some extent in Wiswell's second review.<ref name="Wiswell 1986"/>


* The hospital chart data used in the retrospective studies are unreliable. Hospitals frequently omit to record a circumcision on a baby's chart. In Atlanta, O'Brien found that circumcision was recorded only 84.3% of the time for circumcised boys.<ref>{{REFjournal
* The hospital chart data used in the retrospective studies are unreliable. Hospitals frequently omit to record a circumcision on a baby's chart. In Atlanta, O'Brien found that circumcision was recorded only 84.3% of the time for circumcised boys.<ref>{{REFjournal