Urinary Tract Infection, commonly known as UTI, affects as many as 50% women at least once during their lifetime. All individuals are susceptible to Urinary Tract Infection (UTI); however the prevalence of infection differs with age, sex and certain predisposing factors. With the above background in mind we conducted a survey of the local population (women of 3 age groups) to compare the urinar...

urinary tract infection (uti) is a common disease in childhood specially in female. in this study 50 patients with stablished diagnosis of uti were evaluated by both renal scan with tc-99m dmsa and renal sonography. the study revealed that most urinary tract infections are in children, female sex between 5-9 years of age. therefore the most important complications (renal scarring) are also comm...

Introduction: Urinary tract infection (UTI) is common in children. Recurrent UTI causes serious complications such as renal scarring, proteinuria and hypertension. Recent studies have  reported  that hypercalciuria  may  be considered  a  risk  factor  for  recurrent  UTI. Materials and Methods: In this study 110 children 2months to 13years o...

Urinary tract infection (UTI) is a common medical problem. The diagnosis and management of urinary tract infections is an important and frequent clinical task. Symptoms and routine urine analysis are not consistent or reliable indicators of UTI; a quantitative culture of the urine is necessary for a definitive diagnosis (1-3). Because symptoms and urine analysis are of questionable value in doc...

background: urinary tract infection is one of the commonest infections which affect humans. half of all women have a uti in their lifetime and one fourth have recurrent infections. health behaviours can help patients to prevent urinary tract infection recurrence and changing beliefs is necessary for health behaviour change. the aim of this study is to investigate the effect of education based o...

Complicated urinary tract infection (UTI) occurs in patients7 with a genitourinary tract that does not function normally, usually due to structural or functional abnormalities. There are a wide variety of diseases and interventions responsible for complicated UTI, including obstructive lesions, metabolic diseases, instrumentation, foreign bodies, or dysfunctional voiding primarily due to neurol...

Urinary tract infection (UTI), the most common bacterial infection, among renal transplant recipients (RTRs) remains a challenge particularly given increased incidence of MDR organisms including Carbapenem resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE). Compared to other infections, CRE infections were associated with inferior patient and graft outcomes. Paradoxically, there have been no guidelines on mana...

Staphylococcus saprophyticus is a common pathogen of acute urinary tract infection (UTI) in young females. However, S. saprophyticus bacteremia originating from UTI is very rare and has not been reported in Korea. We report a case of S. saprophyticus bacteremia from UTI in a 60-year-old female with a urinary stone treated successfully with intravenous ciprofloxacin, and review the cases of S. s...