Prevalence of Uropathogenic Escherichia Coli & Staphylococcus Aureus Among Patients With Cases of Urinary Tract Infection Attending Benue State University Teaching Hospital, Markudi

ABSTRACT In the present study, we investigated the prevalence of few bacterial organisms associated with urinary tracts infection and their antimicrobial susceptibility patterns. Total of Ninety (90) midstream urine samples were collected from outpatients with respect to their age group, gender and marital status attending health facility in Benue State University Teaching Hospital Makurdi. Each 0.1ml of urine sample was cultured on MacConkey agar and colonies showing lactose fermentation were subsequently subcultured on Eosin Methylene Blue Agar to obtain a pure culture of E. coli whereas S. aureus was isolated by inoculating 0.1 ml of urine sample on Cysteine Lactose Electron Deficient (CLED) agar and subsequently subcultured into Manitol Salt Agar to obtain pure culture. One way analysis of variance (ANOVA) and paired t-test was carried out using IBM SPSS STATISTICAL version 22. Based on the result obtained, 33(36.67%) prevalence of E. coli and S. aureus was observed. E. coli has the highest occurrence of 19(95.00)% while S. aureus has 14(70.00%). There was significant variation within the age group at ρ