Uropathogenic infections among patients with diabetes in Baghdad City

Abstract EN

One hundred thirty four urine samples were collected from diabetic patients during the period from March-November -2014.

From these samples there were 62.7 % positive samples, women represented 45.3 % and men represented 54.7 % , some of them were a symptomatic as women represented 60.5% and men represented 58.7 % and some were with clinical symptoms with or without a history of UTI.

Hypertension diabetic women represented 45 % and men represented 26 % .Men suffering from prostate enlargement were represented 35 % from the total diabetics .The E.coli isolates were represented 28.6% from the total cases ,Klebsiella spp isolates represented 20 %, S.

aureus isolates represented 16.7 %,Proteus spp isolates represented 15.5 % followed by Streptococcus fecalis isolates represented 13 % and Candida albicans isolates represented 6.2 %.

Both gram positive and negative isolates were tested for their susceptibility and resistance to some common antibiotics, S.aureus isolates were resistant to ampicillin , cefotaxime and amoxicillin (71.4 %,57 %) respectively , Streptococcus fecalis isolates were resistant to erythromycin 82% and susceptible to ampicillin 73% , E.coil isolates were resistant to cloramphenicol 58 % and susceptible to ciprofloxacin 83 % .

Klebsiella spp isolates were susceptible to ciprofloxacin and gentamicin both (100 %) ,Proteus spp isolates were susceptible to norfloxacin 92 %.