Common uropathogens among diabetic patients with urinary tract infection at Jinja Regional Referral Hospital, Uganda

Between June 2015 and October 2015, 159 mid-stream urine samples from diabetic patients were cultured. The prevalence of urinary tract infection was high at 22% and women were more affected compared with men (P = 0.017). Factors associated with urinary tract infection in these patients were age, sex...

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Autores principales: Nabaigwa, Barbara I., Mwambi, Bashir, Okiria, John, Oyet, Caesar
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: AOSIS 2017
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Brief Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5963006/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29850436
http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/ajlm.v7i1.621
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author Nabaigwa, Barbara I.
Mwambi, Bashir
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description Between June 2015 and October 2015, 159 mid-stream urine samples from diabetic patients were cultured. The prevalence of urinary tract infection was high at 22% and women were more affected compared with men (P = 0.017). Factors associated with urinary tract infection in these patients were age, sex and high blood glucose levels. Diabetic patients should be screened periodically for urinary tract infection.
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spelling pubmed-59630062018-05-30 Common uropathogens among diabetic patients with urinary tract infection at Jinja Regional Referral Hospital, Uganda Nabaigwa, Barbara I. Mwambi, Bashir Okiria, John Oyet, Caesar Afr J Lab Med Brief Report Between June 2015 and October 2015, 159 mid-stream urine samples from diabetic patients were cultured. The prevalence of urinary tract infection was high at 22% and women were more affected compared with men (P = 0.017). Factors associated with urinary tract infection in these patients were age, sex and high blood glucose levels. Diabetic patients should be screened periodically for urinary tract infection. AOSIS 2017-02-09 /pmc/articles/PMC5963006/ /pubmed/29850436 http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/ajlm.v7i1.621 Text en © 2018. The Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Licensee: AOSIS. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License.
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title_full Common uropathogens among diabetic patients with urinary tract infection at Jinja Regional Referral Hospital, Uganda
title_fullStr Common uropathogens among diabetic patients with urinary tract infection at Jinja Regional Referral Hospital, Uganda
title_full_unstemmed Common uropathogens among diabetic patients with urinary tract infection at Jinja Regional Referral Hospital, Uganda
title_short Common uropathogens among diabetic patients with urinary tract infection at Jinja Regional Referral Hospital, Uganda
title_sort common uropathogens among diabetic patients with urinary tract infection at jinja regional referral hospital, uganda
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5963006/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/ajlm.v7i1.621
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