PEDIATRICS Vol. 78 No. 5 November 1986, pp. 951-952
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Circumcision Debate

R. L. OZERE MD1

1 Discipline of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University, Health Sciences Centre, St John's, Newfoundland A1B 3V6, Canada

To the Editor.—

Drs Wiswell, Smith, and Bass (Pediatrics 1985;75:901-903) report an association between circumcision and decreased frequency of urinary tract infection in infancy. This report has all the makings of a pediatric cause celebre, perhaps overshadowing the significance or lack of same of this study. They indicate that their latest study includes a series of infants, 92% of whom were cultured by bladder tap, with the same observed difference in frequency of urinary tract infection between the circumcised and noncircumcised.