Bacteriology of Urinary Tract Infection in Children Attending Federal Staff Hospital in Abuja

Urinary tract infection (UTI) is a term applied to a variety of clinical conditions ranging from asymptomatic presence of bacteria in the urine to severe infection of the kidney with resultant sepsis. The study was designed to identify the bacteria associated with urinary tract infection among children attending Federal staff hospital, Abuja and to ascertain their antibiogram. Mid-stream urine samples were collected from the subjects enrolled into the study and were cultured into Cysteine Lactose electrolyte deficient medium and Blood agar and incubated appropriately. The plates were read and isolated were subjected to biochemical reactions and antibiogram were carried out on pathogenic organisms. The results showed the overall prevalence of 10.8% urinary tract infections among the studied subjects. The females subject had the highest prevalence of 91.7% while the male counterpart recorded 8.3%. The age groups 1-5 years had the highest prevalence of 50.0% while least prevalent of 16.7% were recorded by age group 6 to 10 years old. Escherichia coli was the highest isolated with 51.7% while Proteus Species and Streptococcus faecalis recorded the prevalence of 2.5% respectively. This study concluded that urinary tract infections is very common among children attending Federal staff hospital in Abuja. Keywords: BA- Blood agar, CLED-Cysteine Lactose, Electrolyte deficient medium, FSH-Federal Staff Hospital, UTI- Urinary Tract Infection.