Pathogens and antibiotic susceptibility profiles in the urinary tract.

Category Primary study
JournalEast African medical journal
Year 1992
Of 2,780 specimens of midstream urine (MSU) collected from patients of Medical out-patient Unit of Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), and examined between March 1989 and February 1990, 780 (28.1%) had bacterial colony counts greater than 100,000 per ml. The commonest pathogens were E. coli, Klebsiella aerogenes, Proteus mirabilis, Pseudomonas aeruginosa. 9.8% of the infections were caused by Gram-positive bacteria while 6.0% were due to the fungus, Candida albicans and Candida species.
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