[Bacteriology of urinary infections in paraplegics (author's transl)].
The AA. report the results of 300 urine cultures carried out on paraplegics hospitalized in the Centro Paraplegici of Ostia since 1970 to the end of 1977. All the patients were catheterized. They found infections in the 73 to 92% of the examined cases in the different years. The most frequently isolated bacterial species in the years 1970, 1971, and 1972 were Escherichia, Staphylococcus and Enterococcus, whereas were Proteus, Citrobacter, Klebsiella and Psuedomonas in the following years. They believe that these findings are correlated with the more and more frequent use of large spectrum antibiotics, that are able to control the infections supported by Escherichia and by Gram-positive and make easy the establishement of bacterial species much more resistant against their action.
D001437:Bacteriuria; D004755:Enterobacteriaceae / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D006801:Humans; D010264:Paraplegia / Q000150:complications*; D011549:Pseudomonas / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D013210:Staphylococcus / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D014552:Urinary Tract Infections / Q000150:complications / Q000382:microbiology*
La flora batterica nell infezioni urinarie dei paraplegici.