IJSR International Journal of Scientific Research 2277 - 8179 Indian Society for Health and Advanced Research ijsr-7-3-14592 Original Research Paper Study of Incidence of UTI, Pathogenesis and its Sensitivity Pattern of UTI in patients in patients with lower Abdominal Pain who visited the Department of OBG: Rekhalatha Dr. March 2018 7 3 01 02 ABSTRACT

 

Background:

Urinary tract infections are common causes of both community acquired and nosocomial infections in adult patients admitted in the hospitals. Urinary tract infections can be defined as the presence of pathogenic bacteria in significant colony count in the bladder of upper urinary tract with its associated consequences. Asymptomatic bacteriuria is a term used to designate urinary tract infections in the absence of symptoms with the growth of bacteria colonies often crossing 1,00,000 / ml in a freshly voided midstream urine sample. Urethritis and cystitis are characterized by the inflammation of the urethra and bladder with symptoms of dysuria, frequency and lower pubic pain and it is associated with fever. Acute pyelonephritis is the bacterial infection of renal parenchyma and it is characterized by fever with rigors, flank pain, vomiting, costo vertebral tenderness with or without symptoms of cystitis. It may be associated with pus formation. Prastitis is quiet common and it involves infective inflammation of the prostate associated with dysuria, urgency, frequency and pain in the lower abdomen, perineum, or base of the penis.  A sincere effort has been made in this study the Pathogenesis and its Sensitivity Pattern in UTI.