Group B streptococcus (GBS) is a common commensal of the gastrointestinal and vaginal mucosa and a leading cause of serious infections in newborns, the elderly, and immunocompromised populations. GBS also causes infections of the urinary tract. However, little is known about host responses to GBS urinary tract infection (UTI) or GBS virulence factors that participate in UTI. Here we describe a ...

The use of long-term catheterisation to manage insensate bladders, often associated with spinal cord injury (SCI), increases the risk of microbial colonisation and infection of the urinary tract. Urinary tract infection (UTI) is typically diagnosed and treated based on the culturing of organisms from the urine, although this approach overlooks low titer, slow growing and non-traditional pathoge...

* Department of Pediatric, College of Medicine, Hawler Medical University, Erbil, Iraq. Introduction Urinary tract infection(UTI) is one of the most common bacterial infections of childhood and it is associated with significant acute morbidity and long term illness such as arterial hypertension and chronic renal failure. It has been suggested that early diagnosis, proper investigation, adequate...

urinary tract infection (uti) is considered as one of the important bacterial infections seen among renal transplant recipients. in the present study, bacterial urinary tract infections in renal transplant recipients were investigated. eighty-seven renal transplant recipients (57 males and 30 females) were included to study the bacterial utis. clean- catch midstream urine specimens were obtaine...

Eighty eight severely malnourished preschool children (Grade III or Grade IV, IAP classification) were studied to find out the prevalence of urinary tract infection (UTI). Fifty three well nourished preschool children served as controls. Urine samples were collected by suprapubic aspiration in children below 3 years and in older children a clean catch midstream sample of urine was collected. Th...

We studied the pathogenic role of host and Escherichia coli virulence factors in the development of E. coli bacteremia in patients with acute cholangitis (AC) or upper urinary tract infection (UTI). Isolates recovered from 75 adult patients consecutively admitted to the hospital with E. coli bacteremia caused by AC (n=24) or upper UTI (n=51) were evaluated, as were 30 fecal strains isolated fro...

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 als...

Abstract Kawasaki disease (KD, typical/atypical/partial) admissions (n = 644) were surveyed from 2017 to 2020 and compared urinary tract infection (UTI) COVID-19 in 2020. KD decreased by 27% median age 2020, whereas UTI remained steady. showed a seasonality with peak April nadir February-March. All KD/KD-related pediatric intensive care unit cases tested negative for COVID-19, no multisystem in...

Introduction. There is still controversy regarding the possible role of chronic functional constipation in disorders of the urinary tract, specifically urinary tract infection (UTI) and enuresis. The aim of this study was to investigate the frequency of (UTI) and enuresis in children with chronic functional constipation. Materials and Methods. We included 120 children (60.8% girls) with chronic...