The incidence of Lower (UTI) according to the age and sex in Ramadi City.
| Autor: | Essam M. Abdullah, Saad T. Mutlak |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2009 |
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| Zdroj: | مجلة كلية الطب, Vol 51, Iss 3 (2009) |
| Druh dokumentu: | article |
| ISSN: | 0041-9419 2410-8057 |
| DOI: | 10.32007/jfacmedbagdad.v3289-291% |
| Popis: | Back ground: A urinary tract infection is one of the most common diseases occurring from neonate up to geriatric age groups Patients and Methods: A total of (100) Midstream urine (MSU) samples were collected from patients having signs and symptoms of Lower urinary tract infection. These patients were attending Urology Clinic, Ramadi General Hospital. Result: Culturing of (100) MSU samples on MacConky and blood agar resulted in (5) types of bacteria which included: Escherichia coli (46%) and it was found the most frequent bacteria causing LUTI. This is followed by Klebsiella pneumonia (23%), Pseudomonas aeruginosa (13%), Proteus mirabilis (10%) and Staphylococcus epidermidis (8%). Conclusion: Out of the total studied samples, (38%) were males and (62%) were females. It was found that the age of frequent infection was 60 year in male, while in female was 16-35 year. |
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