Causes of urinary tract infections in people with diabetes compared to those without diabetes

The study includes the isolation and identification of bacteria causing urinary tract infection (UTI) for 372 diabetic patients , 125 of them were males , 247 females and 95 healthy controls , their ages ranged between 11-71 years. The study showed that UTI caused by different micro organisms at a rate of 66.13% of the diabetic patients , 69.9 % of them were females , while 30.1 % were males , UTI increased significantly with age in both sexes especially after the age of 40 years for diabetic non-insulin dependent patients . UTI in diabetic patients was caused by different genera of bacteria compared with those in non-diabetic as the bacteria isolated was CUrobacler ,Serratia , Morganella , Salmonella , Staph. Epidermidis and Alcaligens in diabetic patients only , in spite of the different types of bacteria isolated E.coli , Klebsiella and Staph. aurleus showed a prevalence among the other causes in spite of the different isolation rates of both groups.