[Diagnosis and current antibiotic therapy of urinary tract infections (author's transl)].

The problems caused by urinary tract infections confront the urologist with multiple specific tasks and call for cooperation with other specialists. In addition to basic and urological diagnostic acts recommendations are made for succeeding in diagnosis by means of bacteriology and nephrology. Considering the clinical degrees of urinary tract infections and the associated spectrum of causative bacterial agents the principles of current antibiotic treatment are presented