Chronic kidney disease is an increasing public health problem. In the United States, the prevalence is estimated to be approximately 11% of the adult population. Chronic kidney disease may progress to end-stage renal failure, a condition associated with high morbidity and mortality. Diabetes mellitus (DM) is one of the main causes of kidney disease and endstage renal failure. In the United Stat...

BACKGROUND Symptomatic and asymptomatic bacteriuria (ASB) is common in pregnant women. Pregnancy enhances the progression from ASB to symptomatic bacteriuria, which if left untreated, could lead to acute pyelonephritis and other adverse outcomes such as prematurity, postpartum, hypertensive disease, anaemia, UTIs and higher foetal mortality rates. AIM To identify the prevalence of ASB, the mo...

Background: Asymptomatic bacteriuria is defined as thepresence of significant bacteriuria>105 colony formingunits (cfu)/mL without the symptoms an acute urinarytract infection. Pre-eclampsia by blood pressureof greater than 140/90 mmHg after 20th week pregnancy and proteinuria equal to or higher 300 mg per24 hours.Objective: Detecting incidence asymptomatic among study group at El shatby antena...

Streptococcus agalactiae causes both symptomatic cystitis and asymptomatic bacteriuria (ABU); however, growth characteristics of S. agalactiae in human urine have not previously been reported. Here, we describe a phenotype of robust growth in human urine observed in ABU-causing S. agalactiae (ABSA) that was not seen among uropathogenic S. agalactiae (UPSA) strains isolated from patients with ac...

BACKGROUND Urinary tract infections (UTI) are the most common type of infection in the United States. A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report in March 2014 regarding antibiotic use in hospitals reported "UTI" treatment was avoidable at least 39% of the time. The accurate diagnosis and treatment of UTI plays an important role in cost-effective medical care and appropriate antimicrobi...