Rubina Iqbal, Ayesha Intsar, Shahida Yaqoob, Samina Khurshid, Sara Gulbaz.
Urinary Complaints and Causative Organisms of Urinary Tract Infection among Pregnant Women.
Pak J Med Health Sci Jan ;6(2):488-91.

Objective: To determine the frequency of urinary tract infection and common causative agents of UTI among symptomatic pregnant women and to determine the frequency of various presentation of urinary tract infection among pregnant women Study design: Cross sectional study Setting: Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology for a period of six months from May 2011 to October 2011 Methods: This study included 230 patients who were evaluated for the presence of urinary tract infection and associated causative agents. Results: Majority of the patients were between 20-25 years, i.e. 40.87%(n=94), mean±sd was recorded as 27.21±3.65 years, 19.13%(n=44) were with 0 para, 23.04%(n=53) were between para 1-2, 26.53%(n=61) were between para 3-4 and 31.30%(n=72) were recorded with para >4, 89.13%(n=205) with E.Coli, 4.78%(n=11) with staphylococcus and 2.17%(n=5) with Methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus, 44.35%(n=102) with Stress urinary incontinence, 66.96%(n=154) were notcturia, 38.70%(n=89) with urgency and 32.17%(n=74) with dysuria.\ Conclusion: The result of the study reveals that frequency of urinary tract infection and common causative agents and various presentation of UTI among symptomatic pregnant women are high in.

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