The prevalence of Staphylococcus saprophyticus in patient of Urinary Tract Infection (UTI) in Falluja City

Abstract

This study was conducted to evaluate the incidence of Staphylococcus saprophyticusand its role in urinary tract infection in male and female For achieving this goal, 400midstream urine samples were collected from patients suffering from UTI in Al-Fallujahospital (male and female) for the period between 114 to30102006, samples werecultured on mannitol salt agar and Staph. 110 and different biochemical tests and APIStaph. Were used to ensuring the diagnosis disc diffusion method was used to test thesusceptibility of these isolates to different antibiotics (11 antibiotics) which used astherapeutics. The results could be summarized as follows:1:-Isolation and identification of 16 isolates belonging to Staphylococcussaprophyticus comprising 4% out of the total number of infection cases with thedominance of female infection.2:-The rate of infection increase in compared with city.3:-All Staphylococcus saprophyticus isolates were sensitive (87.5%) to Ceftazidime,75% Refampicin, while these isolates were resistance to Lincomycin (100%), (81 %)Erthromycin ( 75%) Trimethoprim and the current study showed those plasmids arethe genetic material that encoded the resistance to antibiotics.