Bacterial urinary tract infections (UTI) are among the most frequent infectious diseases of small animals. Although antimicrobial therapy is recommended for treating bacterial UTIs, current consensus that treatment may not be necessary asymptomatic The aim this study was to evaluate diagnostic ability urinalysis detect bacteriuria and compare it with urine culture (gold standard method) assess ...

AS LONG ago as 1881, Roberts drew attention to the existence )AI of asymptomatic bacteriuria and postulated that this condition might prove to be a forerunner offrank urinary tract infection. Dodds (1931) suggested that this condition had particular significance in pregnancy, though Baird (1936) whilst agreeing that symptomless urinary infection occurred in pregnancy was unimpressed both by its...

Urinary tract infections frequently affect pregnant mothers. This problem causes significant morbidity and healthcare expenditure. Three common clinical manifestations of UTIs in pregnancy are: asymptomatic bacteriuria, acute cystitis and acute pyelonephritis. Escherichia coli remains the most frequent organism isolated in UTIs. All pregnant mothers should be screened for UTIs in pregnancy and ...

Asymptomatic bacteriuria or candiduria No symptoms of UTI E. coli, K. pneumoniae, other Enterobactericeae, Enterococcus spp., Candida Treatment of asymptomatic bacteriuria is generally not recommended. Pyuria alone is not an indication for treatment. If a urethral catheter is in place, removal is recommended. Treatment is recommended in the following settings: pregnancy, prior to traumatic geni...

Fifty-nine asymptomatic men without catheters of ileal-loop bladders, who were attending a urology clinic and were incidentally discovered to have 100,000 or more Enterobacteriaceae per ml ("significant bacteriuria") in a clean voided urine sample, were prospectively evaluated. To identify these 59 patients, 5,876 urine samples, collected exclusively from men, had been subjected to quantitation...