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Research Paper | Bacteriology | Iraq | Volume 10 Issue 3, March 2021

Isolation and Identification of Different Causing UTI in Al-Najaf Hospitals

Enas Sahib Abd Ali Al-Heddad | Jenan Mohammed Hussain Fayroz-Ali

Abstract: This study of urinary tract infection has been planned to isolation and identification of bacterial pathogens. The urine were collected from 516 patients for Al-Najaf Hospitals, they were including (81) male and (435) female. Patients aged between 5to60 years. Urine culture had been done for all the 516 patients who were included in this study. Only 221 patients had positive urine culture and 295 negative urine culture. The most common organism was Escherichia coli which was isolated from 200 patients with percentage of 38.75 %. E. coli was the most prevalent followed by Staphylococcus saprophyticus 20.54 % (106), Staphylococcus aureus 16.66 % (86), Klebsiella spp.13.17 % (68), Streptococcus spp.5.62 % (29), Proteus spp.3.48 % (18) and Pseudomonas aeruginosa 1.74 % (9). The antibiotic susceptibility test was done for E. coli isolates to 10 antibiotics.

Keywords: UTI, Antibiotics, Escherichia coli, Al- Najaf Hospital

Edition: Volume 10 Issue 3, March 2021,

Pages: 7 - 10

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