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Abstract:
One hundred eighty-five urine specimens were collected from an unselected group of non-gravid Nigerian women patients attending the infertility and gynaecologic clinics in Ile-Ife, Nigeria to investigate the aerobic urethral microflora. The specimens revealed that 25.9% of the total collected and processed contained bacteria flora. The most common aerobes isolated were Escherichia coli, P. mirabilis and S. epidermidis, in that order. The study has shown that there are changes in the urethral microflora from one physiologic age group to the other and that colonization of the urethral and urinogenital tract is important in the development of urinary tract infections.
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