Antibiograms from community-acquired uropathogens in Gulu, northern Uganda - a cross-sectional study

BMC Infectious Diseases

Table 1 Demographic and clinical characteristics of outpatients with urinary tract infection at Gulu regional hospital (n = 82)

Parameter	Males (n = 3)	Females (n = 79)	Total (%)
Mean age in years (range)	46 (37–59)	23 (18–70)
Pregnancy status among participants	N/A	Not pregnant = 65 Pregnant = 14	79
Presenting symptoms^a (%)
Increased urine frequency	-	85	N/A
Supra pubic pain/discomfort	-	77	N/A
Dysuria	-	68	N/A
Urge incontinence	-	55	N/A
History of recurrent symptoms (in past 6 months)	0	3	3
Immune suppression symptoms	0	0	0
Neurological disease affecting micturition	0	0	0
Renal angle pain/tenderness	0	0	0
Prostatic enlargement	1	N/A
Recent catheterization	0	0	0
Positive urine sugar	0	0	0
Recent antibiotic use (2 weeks)^b	0	69	69 (20.4)
Significant leucocyturia (pyuria)^b	3	115	118 (34.8)
At least 10⁵ CFU/mL^c	3	64	67 (56.8)

Key: N/A, Not applicable; CFU, Colony forming units. ^a calculations only done for female participants as males were too few for meaningful results. ^b recorded from all patients having any symptom suggestive of a UTI (n = 339).
^c test performed only on patients with significant leucocyturia (n = 118).

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