BACKGROUND Urinary tract infections (UTIs) are extremely prevalent and despite treatment with antibiotics, reoccurrences are common causing frustration in the patient and the potential for developing antibiotic resistance. The use of cranberry products to prevent UTIs has recently become popular and more clinical studies are needed to explore this use. OBJECTIVE This open label pilot study ex...

The pathogenesis of recurrent urinary tract infections (UTIs) in preschool children with anatomically correct urinary tract (UT) is rather obscure. In girls, the bladder wall changes of cystitis cystica (CC) may be per se responsible for UTIs recurrence. During the 20-year period, 127 preschool children (125 girls; median age: 6.1 years) with CC, in whom UT anomalies were excluded, were diagnos...

PURPOSE The aim of this study was to review the experience of a single institution with the Deflux (Q-Med Scandinavia; Uppsala, Sweden) procedure and assess its effectiveness in reducing the incidence of urinary tract infections (UTIs) in children with vesicoureteric reflux (VUR). MATERIALS AND METHODS After institutional review board approval, the charts of 100 patients with VUR, who present...

BACKGROUND Urinary tract infections (UTIs) are common and result in an enormous economic burden. The increasing prevalence of antibiotic-resistant microorganisms has stimulated interest in non-antibiotic agents to prevent UTIs. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the cost-effectiveness of cranberry prophylaxis compared to antibiotic prophylaxis with trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole (TMP-SMX) over a 12 month p...

Urinary tract infections (UTIs) are one of the most common medical conditions in women and men. They caused by bacteria that enter urinary through urethra or skin around genitals. In this study, 102 urine samples were collected from 74 patients infected UTIs 28 with kidney failure (UTIs-KF) admitted to a general hospital AL-Najaf City, Iraq, between October 2022 March 2023 30 healthy individual...

Objective: To study the Prevalence of urinary tract infections and related risk factors to Management infections. Methods: This was a prospective observational conducted in General Medicine Department, Osmania Hospital (OGH), tertiary care teaching hospital Telangana State, where patients presenting or highly suspicious having UTIs were included study. Pregnant women, Children, Patients who are...

Background: Escherichia coli (E. coli) remains one of the leading agents of urinary tract infection (UTIs), it has become resistant to many drugs. Current work aimed to evaluate some chemical substances as antibacterial agents and molecular study of virulence factors associated with UTIs. Methods: This work involved 133 urine specimens obtained from females’ patients suffering from UTIs, Met...

urinary tract infections (utis) are significant health problem, with escherichia coli as the primary pathogen in proximally 80% of cases. the adhesion of e coli to the host cell can be influenced by cell surface hydrophobicity (csh) and is an important factor for the development of infections. this study was conducted to find the relation between csh and one of the adhesions (mannose resistant ...