Background: Urinary tract infection is a common disease in childhood. The aim of this study was to determine the diagnostic performance of urinary analysis, assess the role of urine culture in determining its necessity and evaluate etiologic agents and antimicrobial resistance patterns in children with urinary tract infection.Methods: Our study was made by evaluating the patients who applied to...

Urine dipsticks are a useful and easy bedside test. Screening all patients older than 60 years is costeffective for chronic kidney disease. However, there is no clear evidence that screening low-risk patients younger than 60 years is cost-effective. This study describes the results of screening dipstick urinalysis of patients at Mankweng Hospital’s Primary Healthcare Clinic. This was a descript...

organic acid occur as physiologic intermediates in variety of intracellular metabolic pathways, such as catabolism of aminoacid, mitochondrial β oxidation of fatty acids, tricarboxilic acid cycle, and cholestrol and fatty acid biosynthesis. the classical organic aciduria represent the pursuit of abnormalities of aminoacid degradation beyond deamination their diagnostic hallmark is an accumulati...

chlamydia trachomatis is the most common agent of urogenital infections in both men and women. diagnosis of chlamydial infections is based on isolation of bacteria in tissue culture media that requires at least 48 to 72h. polymerase chain reaction (pcr) is a sensitive and specific method for detection of small quantity of bacterial dna in clinical samples. the first goal of this study was to pe...

OBJECTIVE To determine the prevalence of urinary abnormalities in young adults living in Abakaliki, Southeastern Nigeria. METHOD Two hundred and fifty (250) clean-catched mid-stream urine samples obtained between October 2005 and June 2006 from apparently healthy young adults, aged 18-25 years (mean = 19.7 +/- 4.1 years) resident in Abakaliki, comprising 151 (60.4%) females and 99 (39.6%) mal...

The kidney of camel is known to play a vital role in water conservation through the production of highly concentrated urine that may predispose animal to varieties of renal dysfunction. In camels renal disorders have received lesser attention in comparison with other animals, thus there is shortage of information in this area. The present study was conducted on 100 slaughtered camels (Camelus d...

Introduction. Patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) are twice as likely to have osteoporosis (OP) compared the general population. The strength of bones depends on mineral substances, mainly represented by calcium phosphate microcrystals. chief role in regulation calcium-phosphorus metabolism is played vitamin D and parathormone (PTH). aim study. To investigate markers patients accompanied bo...

Introduction: Antibiotic resistance, especially in Gram-negative uropathogens such as Escherichia coli, is the main barrier to treat urinary tract infection (UTI). In recent years, the dramatically increased resistance of E. coli to quinolones, a group of widely used antibiotics, has become a significant concern. Methods: In this descriptive cross-sectional study, we collected 261 E. coli isola...