Asymtomatic Bacteriuria in Pregnancy

• Main Authors: Rahmet ÇAYLAN, İftihar KÖKSAL, Kemalettin AYDIN, Serkan VOLKAN, Uğur KOSTAKOĞLU, Recep ÖKSÜZ, Sedat KAYGUSUZ
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Bilimsel Tip Yayinevi 1997-06-01
• Series: Flora Infeksiyon Hastalıkları ve Klinik Mikrobiyoloji Dergisi
• Subjects: Pregnancy; asymptomatic Bacteriüria
• Online Access: http://www.floradergisi.org/getFileContent.aspx?op=REDPDF&file_name=1997-2-2-146-149.pdf

Asymtomatic bacteriuria in pregnancy may cause severe complications such as eclampsia, acute pylelonephritis, premature birth and low birth-weigth. In order to determine the frequency of asymtomatic bacteriuria in pregnant women with respect to the tirimestersin our region, 250 pregnant women without urinary system infection complaints were surveyed. Furthermore, as a control group, 60 non-pregnant women that were sexualy active and without any symptom of urinary system infection were included into the study. Mid-stream urine samples were obtained from both the pregnant women and the control group and cultured under sterile contidions. The urine specimens with bacterial growth of 100.000 cfu/mL (according to NCCLS) were indentified and isolation of the same bacteria spp. from the urine cultures of the same patient after 24 hours confirmed the diagnosis of asymptomatic bacteriuria. In our study, we have found the frequency of asymptomatic bacteriuria in pregnant women and control group as 6.8% (17/250) and 3.3% (2/60) respectively. The difference between the two groups was not statistikcally significant. And no statistically significant difference was noted in the frequency of bacteriuria between two groups with respect to the trimesters. We conclude that in order to avoid the possible complications of asymptomatic bacteriuria, pregnant women should be screened with urine tests that should e performed in each trimester of pregnancy.