عنوان المقالة:THE FREQUENCY OF URINARY TRACT INFECTION ACCORDING TO THE AGE AND SEX IN SOME OF IRAQI CHILDRE,N THE FREQUENCY OF URINARY TRACT INFECTION ACCORDING TO THE AGE AND SEX IN SOME OF IRAQI CHILDRE,N
Huda Sahib Abdul-MohammedAli Kamal MohammedوRiyadh Abdul-Raheem Husseinو
المؤلفون بالإنجليزي
Huda Sahib Abdul-MohammedAli Kamal MohammedوRiyadh Abdul-Raheem Husseinو
الملخص العربي
-{ims of the study: To determine the frequency of bacterial t1'pe
determine the percentage of patients with UTI according to
susceptibility of male and female to difl'erent microorganism.
Patients and Methods: A total of 100 patient in infants and ).oung children having signs
and symptoms of urinary tract infection who were admitted to Central Teaching
Hospital of Pediatric in Baghdad City from l't April till the 30 'h of May 2010.
Midstream urine (MSU) samples were collected from pafients, suprapubic or cleancatch
urine collection use of bag By general urine examination and culturing samples on
MacConkey's and Blood agar) the bacterial grou'th rr-as diagnosed according to
morphological, physiological and biochemical characters (Api 20 E).
Results: The study included (100) of children infection was diagnosed in 29 (14 male and
15 female) who had complaints UTI (53 male and 47 female) from the birth to 12 years
old age.
Conclusions: Male children with UTI showed high rate within the age group (0-3), while
in the other age groups the majority of the infected children were females and
Escherichia coli had the first rank of isolation.