Department of Biological Sciences, College of Sciences, Wasit University, Kut, Iraq
*Corresponding Author: Akmam Ali Habeeb, Department of Biological Sciences, College of Sciences, Wasit University, Kut, Iraq, Phone: 07831820530, Email: ahmedaltai2277@gmail.com
Online published on 26 September, 2019.
The infections that affect urinary tracts and caused by pathogenic bacteria are called urinary tract infection (UTI). It has been mentioned that the infection rate of UTI is increased in women due to their sex-based changes and revealed that UTI rate increases in women with type 2 diabetes, because of hormonal alterations during pregnancy. In addition, having multiple-deliveries in women increases the rate of UTI in these women. Current study was aimed to diagnose urinary tract infections (UTI) in women in Al-Kut City, Iraq.
From Al-Zahra'a General Teaching Hospital, 60 samples of urine were collected from 60 pregnant and 20 non-pregnant women with and without UTI symptoms, respectively. There were also 15 samples of urine that were collected from women which suffered type 2 diabetes. The investigational study was continued from April, 2016 to April, 2017. Microscopic, cultivation, and biochemical tools were used.
the isolated bacteria were from 5 species; Escherichia coli, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Staphylococcus aureus, Proteu mirabilis, and Streptococcus agalactiae. Using biostatistics, there were no significant differences (P>0.05) between pregnant and non-pregnant women regarding the isolated bacterial species. To measure the effect of age on prevalence of the infection, the current study result didn't show any significant effect of this factor on this rate. However, it showed significant influence of sex factor on the incidence of the infection. In fact, the present study infection rate, 47.5%, occurred mostly in ages of women between 26 to 35 years. The present study also detected that the anatomical specification and the many deliveries of some women played important roles in increasing the rate of UTI. The resulted isolates showed various rates of resistance against antibiotics that ranged from the highest (55.8%) in Proteus mirabilis to the lowest (13%) in Streptococcus agalactiae. For the antibiotics, the highest resistance rate was against tetracycline (62%), while the lowest rate was against gentamycin (10%).
there are many bacteria especially E. coli that cause UTI in pregnant women. Current study results suggested launching future studies and following scientific approaches on better control and use of antibiotics against UTI in women.
UTI, pregnant, non-pregnant, diabetic women, antibiotics resistance
