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[Urinary tract infection caused by Haemophilus spp. in pediatrics: a rarely studied disease]
F Galán1, P García-Martos, J Mira
1Servicio de Microbiología, Hospital Universitario Puerta del Mar, Cádiz.
Background:
Haemophilus influenzae and Haemophilus parainfluenzae have been, in very seldom times, described as a cause of urinary tract infection (UTI), mainly on adults. Their real incidence has been scarcely studied. In view of this situation, we have investigated the cases occurred during the year of 1994 in our hospital, in Cádiz (Spain).
Methods:
A total of 16,446 urine cultures from in-patients and ambulatory patients were processed, including the chocolate agar medium in the cultures.
Results:
Urinary infection by Haemophilus supposed an incidence of 0.27% with respect to all positive urine cultures, and a 0.88% of the paediatric ones. H. influenzae was isolated in 7 occasions, and H. parainfluenzae in 3 of them. The 80% of the cases of UTI corresponded to paediatric patients.
Conclusions:
It would be convenient the inclusion of chocolate agar medium in the urine cultures for determined patients, chiefly on children.