Fungus infection of the urinary tract

ABSTRACT

During an 18-month period 100 patients from our hospital [in-patients] underwent culture of urine for fungi. All patients had one or more of the factors predisposing to funguria, out of these cases 21 cases had positive culture for fungi, among them there were 12 males and nine females. The distribution of fungi was C. albicane 13 cases, other C. species five cases and T.glabrate three cases. Our work attracts the attention to the increasing incidence of funguria in hospitals nowadays, Candida fungal infections of the urinary tract is a significant part of the problem of nosocomial urinary tract infections, improvement in techniques of catheter care and insertion must continue and reduction of number and duration of antibiotic therapy should be done if possible