T he value of preoperative urine screening is unproven, except before urologic procedures, in which detection and treatment of asymptomatic bacteriuria is beneficial. Despite this, authors of multiple small case series advocate for screening before nonurologic procedures. However, patients with detected bacteriuria may undergo further testing and, if prescribed antimicrobial drugs, can develop ...

OBJECTIVE To provide information regarding the management of group B streptococcal (GBS) bacteriuria to midwives, nurses, and physicians who are providing obstetrical care. OUTCOMES The outcomes considered were neonatal GBS disease, preterm birth, pyelonephritis, chorioamnionitis, and recurrence of GBS colonization. EVIDENCE Medline, PubMed, and the Cochrane database were searched for artic...

Urinary tract infection (UTI), which may be symptomatic or asymptomatic, is one of the most common bacterial infections requiring medical treatment during pregnancy.1 Asymptomatic bacteriuria (ASB) affects 2-10% of pregnant women, depending on the patient population. If left untreated, as many as 30-50% will develop symptomatic UTI, often in the form of pyelonephritis.2 The hormonal and mechani...

Other symptoms that may also present are malodorous and cloudy urine, rigors, pyrexia (fever), nausea and an acute confusional state (Mahaffey, 2006). The presence of bacteria in the urine, also referred to as bacteriuria, can often lead to inappropriate antibiotic treatment — bacteriuria alone is rarely an indication for antibiotic treatment (SIGN, 2012). The diagnosis of UTI should be primari...

In a prospective, double-blind trial prophylactic cotrimoxazole produced a highly significant reduction in the incidence of bacteriuria after prostatectomy. Only two out of 38 patients who received the drug developed bacteriuria compared with 19 out of 36 patients on placebo. Klebsiella-Enterobacter spp and coagulase-negative staphylococci were responsible for most infections. Although co-trimo...

OBJECTIVE To determine the prevalence of asymptomatic bacteriuria, bacteriology and sensitivity pattern in Ilorin using the gold standard of urine culture. METHODS A prospective study was carried out from 1st July to 31st October 2007, at the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital (UITH) on 125 consenting asymptomatic pregnant women. A structured proforma was used to collect information from ...

Fifty-nine asymptomatic men without catheters of ileal-loop bladders, who were attending a urology clinic and were incidentally discovered to have 100,000 or more Enterobacteriaceae per ml ("significant bacteriuria") in a clean voided urine sample, were prospectively evaluated. To identify these 59 patients, 5,876 urine samples, collected exclusively from men, had been subjected to quantitation...

microbial chemotherapy aregiven forurinary tract infections, and bacterial resistance to broad spectrum antimicrobial agents is common in those wards. 14 Clarification of the role of bacteriuria in the atypicalpresentation of disease in the elderly might thus allow fewer patients to be treated with antibiotics and so reduce bacterial resistance in wards for the elderly. The effect of treating a...

BACKGROUND Asymptomatic bacteriuria is common among women with diabetes, and the treatment of such infections has been recommended to prevent complications related to symptomatic urinary tract infection. METHODS We enrolled women (>16 years of age) with diabetes, bacteriuria (> or =105 colony-forming units of an organism per milliliter in cultures of two consecutive urine specimens), and no u...