Urinary tract infection: a survey of the prevalent strains and their sensitivity.

A survey of 1,228 patients was conducted for the evidence of urinary infection by culture and colony count. Of these patients, 50 percent were from the hospital population while the other half were domiciliary. Sixty percent of the ward patients were found to have significant bacterial count as against 35.2 per cent of the domiciliary patients. The commonest organism isolated from the ward patient and domiciliary patient were klebsiella and E. Coli respectively and the strains in the hospital patients were more resistant as compared to non-hospital population (JPMA 31:259, 1981).