Prevalence of silent bacteriuria in patients with diabetes mellitus

ABSTRACT

Diabetes mellitus and it's complications continue to carry a major health problem. There is evidence that diabetics are more prone to urinary tract infection. The study was done to assess the prevalence of significant bacteriuria in patients with no urinary symptom. Midstream urine samples were collected from 200 diabetic patients. There were 102 females and 98 males and 80 urine samples from non diabetic persons as control were screened for bacteriuria. Out of 200 diabetic urine samples 18 patients [9%] had significant bacteriuria while 2 urine samples [2.5%] of non diabetic samples has significant bacteriuria. Three types of bacteria were isolated from urine samples,Escherchia coli, Staphylococcus, and Proteus and Escherchia coli was the high in number among the other genera. Analysis of the results showed significant bacteriuria in diabetic patients compared with non diabetic patients [p value < 0.05]