Abstract
About 75% of patients admitted for prostatectomy to the University of Benin Teaching Hospital, presented in acute urinary retention and carried indwelling vesical catheters preoperatively. The overall incidence of urinary infection was 55.4% preoperatively, falling to 42.2% postoperatively. The predominant organisms cultured in the urine pre and postoperatively were organisms normally found in the colon.
The sensitivity patterns of the organisms cultured revealed some differences in this drug-abused community when compared with some non-drug abused environments. In this and similar communities where facilities for urine cultures are also not readily available, carbenicillin alone or in combination with either nalidixic acid or nitrofurantoin are suggested as logical drugs of choice for the pre and postoperative manipulations.
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