Urinary Infections in Schistosomal Infestations in Male and female Children

this work aims to study the incidence of urinarytract infection in simple bilharziasis and the effectof antibilharzial drugs on the secondary bacterialinfection. To reach this goal our study was conductedon 145 patients (125 bilharzial and 20 non-bilharzialcontrol patients )between 7-16 years old of both sexes.They were assessed by microscopical examination ofand bacteriological examination.Specimens for bacteriological examination werecollected under complete aseptic precaution, initiallyfrom mid-stream urine.These specimens were cultured ona combination of media (Nutrient and Mac-Conkey’sagar)cover the isolation of the most probable organismscausing urinary tract infection.Only 24 cases out of 125 simplebilharzia1 pat-ient s we refound to be urinary infected. In males we18.4 % of them had infection and the highest in-cidence was between 13-16 years. In females 27.2 %were urinary infected and the highest incidence ofinfection was between 11-14 years.