AIMS Previous studies have noted an association between a diagnosis of overactive bladder and bacteriuria, but little is understood about the relationship of bacteriuria to specific LUTS. We hypothesized that bacteriuria in women would be associated with increased self-reported symptom scores for a wide range of LUTS. METHODS Women were recruited from general gynecology and urogynecology outp...

POSTOPERATIVE bacteriuria occurs in about one-third of patients undergoing major gynaecological surgery and its incidence is related to the method of bladder management (Mustafa and Pinkerton 1968). Although the bacteriuria is cured, in the vast majority of patients, by the time of follow-up in 6 weeks, its incidence adds to the immediate postoperative morbidity and may prolong the patient's st...

Six hundred and nine urine samples were analyzed for pyuria to assess its efficacy as a predictor of bacteriuria, in catheterized patients, using different techniques of pus cells estimation. In 235 and 323 urine samples, pus cells were counted per high power field in centrifuged and uncentrifuged urine respectively, while in 51 urine samples pus cells were counted per cubic millimeter in uncen...

"Urinary tract infection" ("UTI") is an ambiguous, expansive, overused diagnosis that can lead to marked, harmful antibiotic overtreatment. "Significant bacteriuria," central to most definitions of "UTI," has little significance in identifying individuals who will benefit from treatment. "Urinary symptoms" are similarly uninformative. Neither criterion is well defined. Bacteriuria and symptoms ...

One thousand bacterial isolates from consecutive suprapublic aspirations of urine in two groups of patients with symptomatic urinary tract infection and two groups with asymptomatic bacteriuria were studied. Staphylococci accounted for 13 and 27% of the isolates from symptomatic patients but for only 3 and 4% of strains from asymptomatic bacteriuria. Conversely, 18 and 30% of Escherichia coli i...

OBJECTIVE To determine the rate of positive group B streptococcus (GBS) cultures at 35-37 weeks gestation in women who have first trimester asymptomatic GBS bacteriuria. METHODS Pregnant women with asymptomatic first trimester GBS bacteriuria had genital cultures for GBS performed at 35-37 weeks gestational age. Serotyping was performed by the standard Lancefield capillary precipitin method. ...

SIGNIFICANT BACTERIURIA in pregnancy has been well investigated by Kass (1955; 1957; 1962), Sanford (1956), Brumfitt et al (1961), Turner (1961), Mustafa and Pinkerton (1970). The majority of the studies on significant bacteriuria have been carried out in Euroipe and the United States of America. The incidence in pregnancy has been found to be between 5 and 10 per cent. Very few studies on sign...

BACKGROUND Patients with sickle cell disease have an amplified vulnerability to urinary tract infection, because of abnormally dilute and alkaline urine, which favors bacterial proliferation. This is due to altered blood flow in the renal vasculature, which causes papillary necrosis and loss of urinary concentrating and acidifying ability of the nephrons. Asymptomatic bacteriuria is common, but...

Escherichia coli isolates from patients with bacteriuria of pregnancy were compared by PCR with isolates from patients with community-acquired cystitis for the presence of established virulence determinants. The strains from patients with bacteriuria of pregnancy were less likely to carry genes for P-family, S-family, and F1C adhesins, cytotoxic necrotizing factor 1, and aerobactin, but virtual...