Asymptomatic bacteriuria (ASB) is seen in some healthy female populations and many women or men with genitourinary tract abnormalities. Although in many clinical situations ASB is harmless, many patients with ASB are treated unnecessary. Especially, long-term antimicrobial therapy of ASB may select for superinfection with more antimicr...

Urinary tract infections (UTIs) represent a common pathology among female patients, leading to overprescribing antibiotics, globally. The emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically increased the incidence of this particular viral pneumonia with secondary bacterial superinfection, resulting in continuous therapeutic or prophylactic...

Signs and symptoms Dysuria Urinary urgency and frequency A sensation of bladder fullness or lower abdominal discomfort Suprapubic tenderness Flank pain and costovertebral angle tenderness (may be present in cystitis but suggest upper UTI) ·        Cloudy  urine  with  an unpleasant  odour Fevers, chills, vomiting and mal...

Urinary tract infections are common during pregnancy, and the most common causative organism is Escherichia coli. Escherichia coli accounts for 80 to 90 percent of infections. Other gram-negative rods such as Proteus mirabilis and Klebsiella pneumoniae are also common.It's possible to have UTI during pregnancy without any symptoms.  UTI affect...