A client is admitted with a high fever accompanied by chills.The client complains of costovertebral pain but denies dysuria,urgency,or frequency.The diagnosis is pyelonephritis related to pathogens present in the blood.How would the nurse classify this urinary tract infection?

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Hematogenous urinary tract infection is caused by bacteria that have gained entry into the bloodstream and then spread to the urinary tract, causing infection. Symptoms usually include fever, chills, and flank or back pain. Ascending urinary tract infections, also known as cystitis and urethritis, occur when bacteria enter the urethra and move upwards in the urinary tract. Retrograde infections occur when bacteria enter the bladder from the urethra due to faulty closure of the ureterovesical junction during voiding. "Against the flow" is not a classification of urinary tract infection.

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