URINARY TRACT INFECTION IN PATIENTS SUBMITTED THE GYNECOLOGICAL SURGERIES WITH INDICATION LINGERING VESICAL CATHETERISM

Abstract

The present study aims to learn about the frequency oí urinary tract infection in 20 patients submitted to gynecological surgery, with indication of lingering vesicle catheterism, as well as to identify the main responsible micro-organisms and their sensibility to antibiotics, finding the relation between the observed signs and symptoms of urinary infection. Data were obtained by two samples of uriñe of each patient and by lifting possible signs and symptoms. The samples were submitted to bacteriological analysis and antibiogram. Among the 40 collected samples, 17,5% were positive and three bacterial species were isolated: Escherichia coli, Proteus mirabilis and Streptococcus viridans that presented resistance to Sulfa + Trimetropim, Tetracyclin, Nitrophurantoin, Tobramicin and Gentamicin. The symptoms presented were burning, dysuria and the observed signs were fever and turbid uriñe, even among patients considered negative under a bacteriological viewpoint.