Indian Journal of Public Health Research & Development
Year : 2019, Volume : 10, Issue : 10
First page : ( 2778) Last page : ( 2783)
Print ISSN : 0976-0245. Online ISSN : 0976-5506.
Article DOI : 10.5958/0976-5506.2019.03290.X

Occurrence of Asymptomatic Bacterial Urinary Tract Infection and Susceptibility Profile among Students of Medical >Technical Institute-Baghdad

Mohammed Najah Ali

Ph. D, Science, Microbiology, Assistant professors. Middle Technical University, Iraq

Online published on 23 December, 2019.

Abstract

Collect the mid-stream of the urine from 350 students (300 female and 50 male). A general urine exam was conducted to determine the presence of bacteria in urine (bacteriuria). The isolated bacteria were identified and diagnosed aaccording to reference manual and standard methods, culture character and VIdex2. The bacterial isolates were subjected to in vitro susceptibility tests against some antibiotic and was performed by Kirby-Bauer's disc diffusion method done on Mullar-Hunton agar. The overall prevalence of asymptomatic urinary tract infection was (50.57%)in females were 93.78% higher than males 6.21%. Gram Negative bacteria was the predominant bacterial pathogens, and the highest occurring pathogenic bacteria in both sex. The prevalence of bacterial strains, out of the total 177 strains isolated, 166 (93.78%) and 11 (6.21%) strains were isolated from female and male students respectively. Escherichia coli (58.43%), Staphylococcus aureus (27.71%), female students, while the pathogenic isolate from male students were Staphylococcus aureus (45.45), and Escherichia coli (9.09%). Gram-negative isolates showed a high level of sensitivity to GEN and SXT (96%), followed NIT(93%). Gram-positive isolates were highly susceptible to GNE (96.6), SXT (94.9).

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Keywords

Urinary tract infection, antibiotic susceptibility profile.

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