SIGNIFICANT BACTERIURIA in pregnancy has been well investigated by Kass (1955; 1957; 1962), Sanford (1956), Brumfitt et al (1961), Turner (1961), Mustafa and Pinkerton (1970). The majority of the studies on significant bacteriuria have been carried out in Euroipe and the United States of America. The incidence in pregnancy has been found to be between 5 and 10 per cent. Very few studies on sign...

Symptoms suggesting infection of the urinary tract are common. In domiciliary practice they are encountered in 12 to 20 of every 1,000 consultations. During the past fifteen years quantitative bacteriology has shown the important role of bacteriuria in causing these symptoms. At a time when considerable medical resources are being invested in treating terminal renal failure, interest in a preve...

Two screening methods for urine microbiology are proposed: one in which the Gram-stained smear is used to detect significant bacteriuria, and another in which Autobac antibiotic susceptibility tests are performed directly on positive urine samples. Results on 1,350 specimens indicated that an average of 18 bacteria per oil immersion field were observed in the urine of patients with significant ...

Bacteriuria is the leading indicator of Urinary Tract Infection (UTI), which detected through urine culture examination. Significant bacteriuria indicates growth microorganisms as much ≥ 100,000 cfu/ml in culture. There are drawbacks to this examination that requires a screening test with short time and lower cost. This study aimed determine differences results nitrite leukocyte esterase using ...

ated with higher rates of SSI, diarrhea, and CDI, whereas bacteriuria, although associated with health care provider– diagnosed postoperative UTI, was not associated with SSI. Because these associations are derived from small samples in an observational study, they should be interpreted cautiously, recognizing the potential for confounding. Similarly, the finding that treating bacteriuria was a...

A common dilemma in clinical medicine is whether to treat asymptomatic patients who present with bacteria in their urine. There are few scenarios in which antibiotic treatment of asymptomatic bacteruria has been shown to improve patient outcomes. Because of increasing antimicrobial resistance, it is important not to treat patients with asymptomatic bacteriuria unless there is evidence of potent...

Evaluations of screening tests for bacteriuria have traditionally compared the test results with those of quantitative urine cultures. However, many patients with symptomatic urinary tract infections can have less than 10(5) CFU/ml in their urine. Therefore, the results of urine culture and three screening tests (Bac-T-Screen, Chemstrip LN [which tests for leukocyte esterase and nitrate reducta...

reported. The meta-analysis of Saint et al. is an early publication that incorporated clinical trials only to 1993, which were also incorporated into the later meta-analyses."' The meta-analysis by Johnson et al. concluded that there is only "fair quality evidence"'" that antimicrobial catheters can prevent bacteriuria in hospitalized patients during short-term catheterization and that there is...

Escherichia coli is the most common organism associated with asymptomatic bacteriuria (ABU) in humans. In contrast to uropathogenic E. coli (UPEC) that cause symptomatic urinary tract infection, very little is known about the mechanisms by which these strains colonize the urinary tract. Here, we have investigated the biofilm-forming capacity on abiotic surfaces of groups of ABU strains and UPEC...