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ArticleEuropean urology open science2025

Classification of Urinary Tract Infections in 2025: Moving Beyond Uncomplicated and Complicated.

Gernot Bonkat, Florian Wagenlehner, Tommaso Cai, Suzanne Geerlings, José Medina-Polo, Bela Köves, Adrian Pilatz, Laila Schneidewind, Sören Schubert, Rajan Veeratterapillay and 6 more

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Article in European urology open science, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

17 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  5. Letter to the Editor: Urinary infection in European guidelines 2025World journal of experimental medicine · 2026
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  11. More than an infection: the ecological puzzle of recurrent urinary tract infections.Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2026
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  16. Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

16 authors.

Gernot Bonkatalta uro AG, Merian Iselin Klinik, Center of Biomechanics & Calorimetry, Basel, Switzerland.
Florian WagenlehnerDepartment of Urology, Pediatric Urology and Andrology, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Giessen, Germany.
Tommaso CaiDepartment of Urology, Santa Chiara Regional Hospital, Trento, Italy.
Suzanne GeerlingsDepartment of Internal Medicine, Amsterdam Institute for Infection and Immunity, Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, Quality of Care, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
José Medina-PoloDepartment of Urology, Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre, Madrid, Spain.
Bela KövesDepartment of Urology, Jahn Ferenc South-Pest Hospital, Budapest, Hungary.
Adrian PilatzDepartment of Urology, Pediatric Urology and Andrology, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Giessen, Germany.
Laila SchneidewindDepartment of Hematology/Oncology, University Medical Center Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany.
Sören SchubertMax von Pettenkofer Institute, Faculty of Medicine, LMU Munich, Munich, Germany.
Rajan VeeratterapillayFreeman Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.
Kathrin BauschDepartment of Urology, University Hospital Basel, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
Wout DevliesDepartment of Urology, UZ Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
Lorenz LeitnerDepartment of Neuro-Urology, Balgrist University Hospital, University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.
Guglielmo ManticaDepartment of Surgical and Diagnostic Integrated Sciences, University of Genova, Genova, Italy.
Fabian Peter StanglDepartment of Urology, University Hospital Bern, Inselspital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
Jennifer KranzDepartment of Urology and Pediatric Urology, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

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PMID40241853
PMCPMC12002745

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