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Pakistan Journal of Biological Sciences

Year: 2017 | Volume: 20 | Issue: 4 | Page No.: 179-188
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Ali Al-Asoufi

Ali Khlaifat

Amjad Al Tarawneh

Khalid Alsharafa

Khalid Alsharafa

Muhamad Al-Limoun

Khaled Khleifat

Khaled Khleifat

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Background and Objective: The patients with Diabetes Mellitus (DM) have malfunction in bladder which prompt urine accumulation in its pool which serves a decent situation to the microbes to be develop and cause Urinary Tract Infection (UTI). The UTI is the most infectious disease that affects both males and females. This study was designed to detect the bacterial species responsible for UTI in both diabetic and non-diabetic patients in Ma’an province, Jordan. Materials and Methods: One hundred sixteen urine samples were investigated to determine UTI-causing bacteria. These samples distributed unequally between diabetic male (12) and diabetic female (25) and also non-diabetic male (13) and non-diabetic female (66). Results: It was observed that E. coli is responsible for large proportion (44.8%) of UTI in both diabetic (15.5%) and non-diabetic (29.3%) patients. This study showed inequality in the bacterial species that were isolated from both diabetic and non-diabetic samples. However, five bacterial species including E. aerogenes, E. cloacae, C. freundii, A. baumannii and B. subtilis did not exist in all diabetic samples. Treatment of UTI in both diabetic and non-diabetic patients with chloramphenicol (30 μg), ciprofloxacin (5 μg) and vancomycin (30 μg) resulted in more favorability than other antibiotics. At the same time cephalothin (30 μg) was not recommended. Conclusion: Escherichia coli was the prevailing bacterial infections among those which were isolated from patients with UTI. Certain forms of bacterial infections inclined to be extra common in diabetic patients than others and other infections may be more severe in people with diabetics than in non diabetics.
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Ali Al-Asoufi, Ali Khlaifat, Amjad Al Tarawneh, Khalid Alsharafa, Muhamad Al-Limoun and Khaled Khleifat, 2017. Bacterial Quality of Urinary Tract Infections in Diabetic and Non Diabetics of the Population of Ma’an Province, Jordan. Pakistan Journal of Biological Sciences, 20: 179-188.

DOI: 10.3923/pjbs.2017.179.188

URL: https://scialert.net/abstract/?doi=pjbs.2017.179.188

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