A significant trend occurred toward increasing TMP-SMX and toward decreasing nitrofurantoin use.
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Low Concordance With Guidelines for Treatment of Acute Cystitis in Primary Care.
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We found an increasing trend for TMP-SMX, which suggests that high use of quinolones was not in response to rising sulfa resistance.
We were surprised to find a decreasing trend for nitrofurantoin, which is exclusively used for UTI and has preserved in vitro efficacy for Escherichia coli over many years of use [ 4 , 18 ].