Asymptomatic bacteriuria among HIV positive pregnant women

ABSTRACT The prognostic significance of asymptomatic bacteriuria resides in the observation that the prevalence is, relatively, high

in persons with certain medical conditions, such as diabetes mellitus and pregnancy. This prevalence might, even, be

higher in patients with human immunodeficiency virus infection. Hence, this study set out to determine the prevalence

of asymptomatic bacteriuria among symptom free and newly enrolled HIV infected pregnant women attending PMTCT

unit of Antiretroviral Clinic of University College Hospital, Ibadan, Nigeria between 1st May and 30th September 2007.

Information was obtained on the socio-demographic characteristics of the subjects, CD4 count and viral load. Microbial

culture was carried out on aseptically collected urines from the patients. Statistical analysis was done with SPSS 12

package. There were 161 analyzable samples from the participants. The mean age and gestational age at presentation

of participants was 30.49 ± 4.3 years and 27.3 ± 3.2 weeks, respectively with modal parity of 2. Twenty-five (15.5%) of the

urine samples significantly grew bacteria. The CD4 cells were significantly lower and the viral loads significantly higher

(250.52 vs. 355.57 cells/mm3; 88,731 vs. 55,384 copies/ml; p =