The incidence of lower (UTI)‎ according to the age and sex in Ramadi City

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Back ground : A urinary tract infection is one of the most common diseases occurring from neonate up to geriatric age groups Patients and Methods: A total of (100) Midstream urine (MSU) samples were collected from patients having signs and symptoms of Lower urinary tract infection.

These patients were attending Urology Clinic, Ramadi General Hospital.

Result : Culturing of (100) MSU samples on MacConky and blood agar resulted in (5) types of bacteria which included : Escherichia coli (46 %) and it was found the most frequent bacteria causing LUTI.

This is followed by Klebsiella pneumonia (23%), Pseudomonas aeruginosa (13 %), Proteus mirabilis (10 %) and Staphylococcus epidermidis (8 %).

Conclusion: Out of the total studied samples, (38 %) were males and (62 %) were females.

It was found that the age of frequent infection was 60 year in male, while in female was 16-35 year.