Prevalence of bacteria in symptomatic urinary tract infection.

What is it about?

In clinical practice, diagnosis of urinary tract infection (UTI) ideally involves the presence of symptoms and a positive urine culture results. Bacterial pathogens are implicated in these symptomatic patients and their isolation in mid-stream urine cultures is presumptive which may inform commencement of empirical treatment especially in low resource settings.

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Why is it important?

We established that there is a correlation between symptomatic bacteriuria and positive urine culture results with significant contribution by some predisposing risk factors.