A SURVEY was undertaken to find the prevalence of asymptomatic bacteriuria in people in normal health who were patients of members of the North-west Faculty of the Royal College of General Practitioners. Midstream specimens were collected from 341 males and 456 females seen in visits to 19 practices in Lancashire and Cheshire. Three males and 45 females had > 10(5) bacteria/ml; three males and ...

Urinary tract infection (UTI). a common ailment in children, women and elderly people is associated with pyuria, bacteriuria and nitriteuria . Its diagnosis, based on urine culture with significant bacteriuria, needs a good microbiological laboratory and trained microbiologist. Such facility is only available in urban areas of developing countries. Therefore, for rural areas, a simple and cost ...

INTRODUCTION Asymptomatic bacteriuria has been reported to be associated with adverse pregnancy outcome. This study sought to determine the prevalence and complications of asymptomatic bacteriuria amongst parturient in the University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital (UPTH). METHODS The study was a prospective cohort study involving 220 eligible antenatal attendees. Urine culture and sensiti...

background:  approximately 80 to 90 percent of women will experience a urinary tract infection at least once in their lifetime. 2 to 11 of them, in first pregnancy trimester are affected, which, if untreated, leads to the maternal and fetal risks. screening for urinary infection, is considered part of prenatal care. the purpose of this study was to determine the frequency of bacteriuria in preg...

OBJECTIVE--To investigate whether bacteriuria and, specifically, symptomatic urinary tract infection (UTI) occur with increased frequency in men with HIV infection. METHODS--In this cross-sectional study we investigated three groups of men, aged from 18 to 50 years. Group A was composed of patients with a diagnosis of AIDS; Group B, of patients without HIV infection, and group C of patients wit...

OBJECTIVES To determine whether antimicrobial prophylaxis could prevent infections after transrectal needle biopsy of the prostate using automated biopsy devices. METHODS We conducted a prospective, randomized, double-blind, multicenter trial in which a total of 537 patients received either oral ciprofloxacin 500 mg or placebo before transrectal needle biopsy of the prostate. Repeated urine c...

Introduction: Renal transplantation is the treatment of choice in chronic renal failure patients. Objectives: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the impact of urinary catheter removal time on transplanted kidney size and incidence of asymptomatic bacteriuria and urinary tract infections (UTIs). Patients and Methods: This retrospective cohort study evaluated the clinical outcomes of 109 c...

Asymptomatic bacteriuria in elderly individuals has been well described in institutionalized settings, but to a lesser extent in the community. The purpose of this study was to determine the pathogens responsible for asymptomatic bacteriuria in elderly and middle-aged individuals in Alajue-Ede, South-Western Nigeria, and to identify any associated factors. Mid-stream urine samples were collecte...

Urinary tract infection is mainly a disease of the females, due to the anatomical structure of the female urethra (Shruthi et al., 2012; Lavanya et al., 2002). There are 2 types of urinary tract infection (UTI). They are asymptomatic and symptomatic urinary tract infection (Sujatha et al., 2004; Jeyaseelan et al., 2013; Annie et al., 2014). The definition of asymptomatic bacteriuria is the occu...