ABSTRACT
The world's foremost detectives for solving urinary tract infections must be in Tulane University, the Veterans Administration, and the Charity Hospitals of New Orleans. Domingue and Schlegel found L-phase organisms in 1 05 of 502 patients (2 1 %) , whose cultures were negative for classical organisms. 14 Preadministration of an antibiotic could not be responsible for every incidence of the
variants ; sometimes no therapeutic agent had been administered. The study included finding L-forms in the urine of a patient with a 2-year history of repeated pyelonephritis and the subsequent isolation of the identical L-form from the cortex, medulla, and papillae of the involved kidney.
