Staphylococcus saprophyticus em infecções do trato urinário masculino e feminino

Abstract

The Staphylococcus saprophyticus represent the most of coagulase test negative and novobiocin test resistent samples (93%) incident in the urinary tract of men (3,7,11) and the same sample is described as the Gram-positive specimen most frenquent of urinary infection of womem in productive specimen most 30 years old), which canbe the cause of high urinary infection with renal involvement (1,3,5,8,15). The authors intende to determine the prevalence of 5. saprophyticus in urinary Irart infection, where were examined in separeted, fifty-two samples of urinary malc tract and one hundred seventy six (176) of urinary female tract. Infections os men by Staphylococcus aureus were more frenquent than E. coli (36,5% against 19,23%), while in women was sensible the difference between the biggest frenquency of infection by E. coli (29,54%) and less by Staphylococcus aureus 915,90% and in infections of urinary tract of women the frequency was 16,47%. Again, the authors world like to conclude their research by emphasizing the importance of identificaiion of this pathogenous, what can be seen as cause of contamination or confuscd with Staphylococcus coagulase test negative as the Staphylococcus epidermidis (3,9).