[Monitoring of low urinary tract infections in patients hospitalized with neurological diseases].

Bacteriological and systematic investigation has been carried on 135 confined to bed patients at the Neurological Department of the Policlinico of the University of Catania from January 1993 to June 1993, in order to estimate the frequency of the I.V.U. and the probable correlations with the basic nerve disease. Infections have been found with greater frequency between women and patients with catheter. The microorganisms most frequently isolated were: E. coli (36%) and Streptococcus faecalis (36%). Patients with positive urine culture have been treated in accordance with the indications of the bacterial identification. Particularly, surveys carried out in a group of patients suffering from cerebral stroke (81 cases), showed a frequent association between the I.V.U. and the beforesaid pathology. Similar results have been obtained in the two groups of patients submitted to 2 and to 3 drawings of urine respectively, practised at a distance of 5 of 5 days the one form the other.