Effects of Progesterone Hormone on the Urinary Tract Infection in Pregnant Women
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.37506/mlu.v20i4.1924Keywords:
Progesterone during pregnancy, UTI infection during pregnancy, urinary tract infection and age.Abstract
Infection is the highest ratio between hospitals and visiting patients are nosocomial infection registered in
hospital is the urinary tract infection (UTI). The information about the UTI causative agents and the effect
of the Progesterone hormones at possibly will help to choose the right remedy. The current study aimed to
discover the effect of the progesterone in pregnant women on the incidence of the UTI during pregnancy. The
current study was carried out at Hilla General Teaching Hospital, Babylon, Iraq during January- October,
2019. Out of 100 urine testers poised from the outpatient women, the culture showed 15 isolates identified as
Gram positive bacteria (15%), 82 isolates of Gram negative bacteria (82%) and 3 isolates of yeast (3%). The
record collective pathogen isolated was Escherichia coli (48.%), Klebsiella species (10%), Streptococcus
feacalis (8%), Proteus merabilis (8%), Enterobacter cloacae (6%), Pseudomonus (5%), Acinetobacter
(5%), Candida albicans (3%), Enterococcus faecium (2%), Staphylococcus aureus (2%), Streptococcus
agalctiae (2%) and Staphylococcus epidermidis (1%). The progesterone hormone levels were estimated for
all samples.
