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The common classes of antibiotics used to treat UTIs that clinicians should be familiar with include penicillin, cephalosporin, carbapenems, fluoroquinolones, aminoglycosides, and fosfomycin. These are explored further below and summarised in Table 4.1.
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Phan, Y.C., Yang, B. (2020). Antibiotics. In: Yang, B., Foley, S. (eds) Female Urinary Tract Infections in Clinical Practice. In Clinical Practice. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27909-7_4
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