Impact of Host Age, Gestational Week and Parity on Susceptibility to Urinary Tract Pathogens

Background: Urinary tract infections are inflammatory responses of the urothelium to non-flora microorganisms. Aim: This study aimed at identifying the urinary tract pathogens in association with other risk factors in pregnant women residing in the rural community of Okada, Edo State.

Methods: The study entails a cross sectional study involving pregnant women at various gestational age, a mid stream, non-repetitive urine samples were collected in sterile bottles and cultured on bacteriological media at 37℃ overnight, isolates were identified using standard conventional procedures.

Results: The organisms isolated include Staphylococcus aureus, Escherichia coli, Candida albicans with prevalence of 35.7%, 5.1% and 27.1% respectively, the age range 26-31 have a prevalence of 37.7% with a p-value of 0.006, the distribution of UTI in relation to other risk factors such as parity, haemoglobin genotype and level of education had p-value of 0.179, 0.067 and 0.0001 respectively.

Conclusion: The relationship between UTI is not statistically significant with respect to age and parity, but statistically significant with gestational age and level of education.