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Outline the three main defences against UTI

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• Regular flushing during voiding • Length of urethra • Antibacterial secretions into urine

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What does regular flushing during voiding do to help avoid UTIs?

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• Removes organisms in distal urethra

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Outline four host factors which predispose to UTI

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• Short urethra - More infections in female • Obstruction • Neurological - Incomplete emptying, residual urine • Ureteric reflex - Ascending infection from bladder, especially in children

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Give four ways obstructions occur in the urethra

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• Enlarged prostate • Pregnancy • Stones • Tumours

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Outline five bacterial factors which predispose micro-organisms to urinary tract infection

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• Fimbriae allow attachment to host epithelium • Faecal flora migrate across periurtheral area • K antigen permits production of polysaccharide capsule • Haemolysins damage host membranes and cause renal damageUrease breaks down urea creating a favourable environment for bacterial growth

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What bacteria types commonly cause UTI’s?

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• Gram -‘ve bacteria

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What is the commonest type of UTI?

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• An infection of the lower tract - Cystitis

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What is the most common cause of UTIs?

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• Migration of e.coli from faecal flora across peri-urethral area

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What can cause upper UTI’s?

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• Haematogeneous (blood borne) or ascending routes of infection • Upper UTI (pyelonephritis)

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Give three types of lower UTI

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• Bacterial cystitis • Abacterial cystitis • Prostatitis

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Give main symptoms of bacterial cystitis

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• Frequency and dysuria, often with pyuria and haematuria

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Give main symptoms of abacterial cystitis

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• Frequency and dysuria, often with pyuria and haematuria

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How could you tell the difference between bacterial and abacterial cystitis?

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• Bacterial cystitis will be coupled with a bacteraemia

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Give main symptoms of prostatitis

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Fever, dysuria, frequency with perineal and lower back pain

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Give two types of upper UTI’s

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Acute pyelonephritis Chronic interstitial nephritis

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What are symptoms of acute pyelonephritis

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• Symptoms of cystitis • Fever and loin pain

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What are symptoms of chronic interstitial nephritis

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Renal impairment following chronic inflammation - infection one of many causes

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What is an asymptomatic UTI?

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• Covert Bacteriuria • Detected only by culture

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Give two examples of when an asymtpomatic UTI would be important?

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Pregnancy Childhood

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What is the main organism responsible for UTI’s?

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• Coliforms - e.coli - GRAM NEGATIVE SO STAINS PINK

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What bacteria cause young women and hospitalised patients to develop UTI’s?

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Staph Saprophyticus

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Why is there a difference between the bacteria types which cause UTI in hospital and the community?

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• Hospital provides extra risk factors, such as catherterisation which can provide a biofilm surface

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What are two types of UTI?

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• Complicated • Uncomplicated

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What is an uncomplicated UTI?

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• Vast majority of UTI’sFound in healthy women

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What is a complicated UTI?
• Anything which isn't in a healthy woman (Pregnancy, treatment failure, suspected pyelonephritis, males, pediatric)
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How is an uncomplicated UTI investigated?
• No need for urine cultureInfection indicated by Nitirite/Leukocyte esterase dipstick testing
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What is leukocyte esterase?
• An enzyme produced by WBCs which can be detected in the urine in the event of infection
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What does a positive nitrite test usually indicate?
• That the cause of the UTI is a gram negative organism (usually e.coli)Gram -'ves
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What investigations need to occur in a complicated UTI?
• A urine sample must be take, from which a culture will be drawn so bacteria can be identified
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Give four methods of collecting a urine sample
• Mid stream specimen • Adhesive bag over genitalia • Catheter sample from special tube in catheter • Suprapubic aspiration
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How are urine samples collected?
• Mid stream, as urethera's normal flora should not be collected
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How can samples be collected from small children?
• Adhesive bag places over genitals
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What is the issue with using an adhesive bag to collect urine from children?
• False positive rate of 20%
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Where are catheter samples collected from?
• Needle placed up catheter tube • Not from the bag
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What is suprapubic aspiration of urine?
• Needle placed through suprapubic region of pelvis into bladder and urine aspirated up
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How are collected samples stored between collection and culture?
• Transported at 4*C with a small amount of boric acid in collection tube • Prevents bacterial division
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• Prevents bacterial division What investigations can be performed on cloudy urine?
• Turbidity test • Dipstick testing
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What is turbidity?
• Whether the urine looks cloudy - If so, indicative of UTI
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What are four dipstick tests which can be performed on urine?
• Leukocyte esterase - Indicates presence of WBCs • Nitrite - Indicates presence of nitrate reducing bacteria • Haematuria - Present in UTI and many other conditions • Proteinuria - Present in UTI and many other conditions
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In what 6 situations is microscopy used on urine culture?
• Kidney disease • Suspected endocarditis • Children under 6 • Schistosomiasis • Suprapubic aspirate • When requested
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What is urine culture and what needs to occur before infection can be confirmed?
• A number of colony forming units must occur - >100,00 per ml (10^5 cfu/ml) distinguished bacteriuria/contamination
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What are the five main advantages of urine culture?
• To investigate complicated UTIs • Gives epidemiology of isolates • Sensitivity testing • Specificity testing • Control of specimen quality ○ Can differentiate between properly collected and contaminated samples (poorly collected samples may contain epithelial cells)
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What 5 details are needed to correctly interpret a urine culture?
• Clinical details ○ Symptoms ○ Previous antibiotics • Quality of specimen • Delays in culture • Microscopy • Organsims location
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What is sterile pyuria?
Pus in urine
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What does sterile pyuria indicate?
• A UTI is present but unable to be cultured
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Give three situations where sterile pyuria would be present?
• Patient already treated with antibiotics • OR infected with bacteria that are difficult isolate or cultureOR can be due to tuberculosis or appendicitis (appendix stuck on bladder
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What are three other causes of UTI symptoms
• Vaginal infection/inflammation • Sexually transmitted pathogens • Mechanical/physical/chemical causes
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What are general treatments for UTI?
• Increase fluid intake • Address underlying disorders
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How is an uncomplicated UTI treated?
• 3 day course of antibiotics • 3 day course reduces the selection pressure for resistance
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What is given for complicated UTI treatment?
5 day course antibiotics
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Should amoxicillin be used to treat complicated UTI's?
• No50% of isolates (bacteria) resistance
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How should pyelonephritis/septicaemia be treated?
• 14 day course of antibiotics • Use more potent agent with systemic activity
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When is antibiotic prophylaxis indicated?
• Three or more episodes of UTI in one yearNo treatable underlying condition
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What is antibiotic prophylaxis
• Single, low, nightly dose of antibiotics to prevent bacteria build up in static urine • All breakthrough infections documented
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What is pyelonephritis?
• Infection in kidney
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What is the worst case scenario in a UTI?
• Bacteria manage to invade blood stream from urinary tract • Gram negative septicaemia will occur
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What are you likely to see in a culture of contaminated urine?
• Simple Squamous Epithelial cells
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What is sensitivity of a test?
The rate of true positives
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What is specificity of a test?
Rate of true negatives

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