conclusions: the most common infectious episode among spinal cord injury patients was found to be urinary tract ınfection. e. coli was the most common microorganism isolated from urine samples. antibiotic use in the previous 2 weeks or 3 months, hospitalization during the last one-year and previous diagnosis of urinary tract ınfection were the risk factors identified for the development of infe...

INTRODUCTION The role of antibiotic prophylaxis for routine flexible cystoscopy (FC) is not clear due to the varying practices of individual clinicians. There are no formal guidelines, and this may be due to a lack of formal summary of the data. METHODS A systematic review was conducted in April 2014 including all randomised control trials on prophylactic antibiotic use for FC. The main outco...

Asymptomatic bacteriuria, also called asymptomatic urinary infection, is a common finding in healthy women, and in women and men with abnormalities of the genitourinary tract. The characterization and introduction of the quantitative urine culture in the 1950s first allowed the reliable recognition of asymptomatic bacteriuria. The observations that a substantial proportion of patients with chro...

This was a cross-sectional followed by cohort type of study conducted among the pregnant mothers of second trimester in the rural areas of Rajshahi district. Initially 1800 pregnant mothers ofsecond trimester were selected from 18 unions applying 2-stage random sampling. A total of 216 pregnant mothers with asymptomatic bacteriuria were paired among the rest of the healthy pregnant mothers (wit...

One thousand bacterial isolates from consecutive suprapublic aspirations of urine in two groups of patients with symptomatic urinary tract infection and two groups with asymptomatic bacteriuria were studied. Staphylococci accounted for 13 and 27% of the isolates from symptomatic patients but for only 3 and 4% of strains from asymptomatic bacteriuria. Conversely, 18 and 30% of Escherichia coli i...

BACKGROUND Escherichia coli is a common cause of asymptomatic and symptomatic bacteriuria in hospitalized patients. Asymptomatic bacteriuria (ASB) is frequently treated with antibiotics without a clear indication. Our goal was to determine patient and pathogen factors suggestive of ASB. METHODS We conducted a 12-month prospective cohort study of adult inpatients with E. coli bacteriuria seen ...

A total of 231 hospitalised children were studied for bacteriuria; they were divided into symptomatic and asymptomatic groups. The cases with significant bacteriuria (10 organisms/mi of urine) only were considered positive. Five percent of the total cases had significant bacteriuria, a large majority of them being girls. In the symptomatic group the frequency of UTI was 6% while in the asymptom...

OBJECTIVE--To investigate whether bacteriuria and, specifically, symptomatic urinary tract infection (UTI) occur with increased frequency in men with HIV infection. METHODS--In this cross-sectional study we investigated three groups of men, aged from 18 to 50 years. Group A was composed of patients with a diagnosis of AIDS; Group B, of patients without HIV infection, and group C of patients wit...

Urinary tract infection (UTI), which may be symptomatic or asymptomatic, is one of the most common bacterial infections requiring medical treatment during pregnancy.1 Asymptomatic bacteriuria (ASB) affects 2-10% of pregnant women, depending on the patient population. If left untreated, as many as 30-50% will develop symptomatic UTI, often in the form of pyelonephritis.2 The hormonal and mechani...

82 Asymptomatic bacteriuria among type 2 diabetics is a significant risk factor for the development of urinary tract infections. E. coli and K. pneumoniae are the most common isolated organisms in the Saudi community. Among type 2 diabetic females, the prevalence of asymptomatic bacteriuria significantly increases with age, duration of diabetes and elevated HbA1c level. Treatment of asymptomati...