Incidence of Urinary Tract Infections and Its Aetiological Agents among Pregnant Women in Karnataka Region

Abstract

Urinary tract infection (UTI) is the most common medical complications of pregnancy together with anaemia and hypertension and it occurs approximately in 5%-10% of all pregnancies. The aim of this study was to determine the incidence of UTI and prevalence of uropathogens among pregnant women. During the study period from December 2009 to August 2010, 417 urine samples were analyzed. UTI was diagnosed by growth of at least 10 5 CFU/ml of a urinary tract pathogen in a culture of a midstream urine sample. The isolated bacteria were identified by biochemical tests. The results showed that 49.4% of pregnant women have UTI. E. coli which was the most frequently isolated organism (56.79%), followed by Klebsiella sps (19.9%), Pseudomonas sps (6.3%), and Proteus sps (5.8%). Other pathogens isolated were Enterobacter (3.8%), Citrobacter (1.4%) and Enterococcus sps (0.9%). Of the variables examined, the highest prevalence rate was observed where, 53.3% of the infected women were in the age group 36 to 40 years, 54.15% were in their 3 rd trimester; also the highest infection rate (70.2%) was observed in 7 th month of pregnancy, concluding that old age pregnancy increased parity prone for UTI apart from individual hygiene and economical status.

Multidrug Resistant Uropathogens among Egyptian Pregnant Women

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Phenotypic Identification and Phylogenetic Characterization of Uropathogenic Escherichia coli in Symptomatic Pregnant Women With Urinary Tract Infections in South-Western Nigeria

“…This is similar to the findings reported by Abid et al (2013) among pregnant patients with UTIs in Pakistan but higher than the percentages (49.4%) reported in earlier studies by Manjula et al (2013) in pregnant patients in India and 30% by Tamalli et al (2013) in pregnant women who were followed up at different antenatal care clinic in Libya. The high prevalence of UTIs may be explained by sexual intercourse and pregnancy due to the normal physiologic changes induced by gestation which render pregnant women especially susceptible to these infections (National Institutes of Health, 2004;Kolawole et al, 2009).…”

“…Prevalence of UPEC in this study is higher than earlier report in India where E. coli (56.79%) predominates the pathogens recovered (Manjula et al, 2013), and 43.27% reported by Ehsan et al (2013) as the most prevalent among pregnant women. The recovery of only species of E. coli from 226 of the patients suggests a mono-microbial nature of E. coli in UTIs.…”

Incidence of Urinary Tract Infections (UTI) amongst Patients Attending Primary Health Centres in Anambra State

“…[9] [22] [28] also noted in their studies that E. coli was the most commonly isolated pathogen in significant bacteriuria. In a similar study by [29], E. coli was found to be the most implicating pathogen.…”