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- Title
STUDY CONCERNING THE INCIDENCE OF ESCHERICHIA COLI IN URINE SAMPLES.
- Authors
Vlad, Ioana Andra
- Abstract
Escherichia coli (E. coli) belongs to the Escherichia genus, Enterobacteriaceae family. It is a Gram-negative bacilli, aerobeand facultative anaerobe, non sporulating, without capsular material on their surface, motile, as a result of the ciliary apparatus, and by means of peritrichous flagella,or nonmotile. It grows in normal environments (broth and nutrient agar) at the optimum temperature of 37 ° C. E.coliis by far the most common etiologic agent causing urinary tract infections (UTI). Host factors play a decisive part regarding UTI. Diabetes, genetic or acquired immunodeficiencies, colon malformations, obstructive uropathies, vesicoureteral reflux, or pregnancy increase therisk of UTI. The urinary tract infectionmay manifest itself or it may show no symptoms.It affects any segment of the urinary tractand as a result of anatomical relations, once installed in a segment it extends to others: urethritis, prostatitis, cystitis, orpyelonephritis. Sometimes it manifests as an acute episode, self-limited to the lower urinary tract.
- Subjects
DIAGNOSIS of escherichia coli diseases; TREATMENT of escherichia coli diseases; DISEASE incidence; URINALYSIS; BACTERIAL sporulation
- Publication
Analele Universitatii din Oradea, Fascicula Ecotoxicologie, Zootehnie si Tehnologii în Industria Alimentara, 2016, p357
- ISSN
1583-4301
- Publication type
Article