International Journal of Science, Engineering and TechnologyAuthors: Mr. Dharmvir A. Chouhan, Dr. Pradeep M. Tumane, Dr. Durgesh S. Wasnik
Abstract: Urinary tract infection is a commonest infection among women. Despite treatment with antibiotics, UTI is often recurrent. Objective of current study is to check occurrence of uropathogenic bacteria in urine specimens of patients with early symptoms of urinary tract infection. In this study total 237 urine samples were analyzed for occurrence of uropathogenic bacteria. From these urine samples, 164 samples were found to be positive for presence of uropathogenic bacteria. Total positivity rate of samples for uropathogenic bacteria is 69.20 % (164/237). Most of samples having mono-bacterial infection. Positivity rate of male is 53.13 % (34/64) and for female is 75.14% (130/173). Among female patients’ pregnant patients have higher positivity rate -77.96% (46/59) compared to non-pregnant female patients-70.17 % (80/119). Highest positivity rate is reported in old age patients- 100 % positivity reported in 71-80 years and 81-90 years patients. Least positivity (69.15 %) reported in patients with age group 21-30 years. Gram negative bacteria are predominant uropathogen in current study. 73.89 % uropathogenic bacteria are gram negative and 26.11 % are gram positive. E. coli is predominant uropathogenic bacteria (24.5 %) followed by Proteus spp. (16.5 %), S. aureus (11.8 %), Klebsiella spp. (8.4 %), Enterococcus spp. (8.0 %), Enterobacter spp. (4.2 %) and Pseudomonas spp. (2.5 %). Isolates of uropathogenic bacteria are identified based on morphological, biochemical and cultural characteristics.
