Prevalence of acquired urinary infection in patients with HIV/AIDS

Abstract

A correlational prevalence study was conducted with the aim of knowing the casuistry of patients infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and suffering from urinary tract infection (UTI). Patients having both HIV/ AIDS and UTI at the same time were identified.  These patients had had outpatient consultation at Clinica Central de Especialistas in Neiva, between 1998 and 2008. The variables analyzed were age, sex, social status, urine culture, recount of CD4 prior to infection, viral load before infection, prescribed treatment and treatment for UTI.  The Epi info version 3.5 program was used to analyze the data gathered by means of a questionnaire. A database was created which allowed to carry out a better and more efficient analysis of variables. The most important results were: 13 out of 273 patients were found to suffer from UTI, 63% were women and 76.9% were between 20 and 50 years old. The main isolated microorganism was Escherichia coli in a 61.5%, the most common prescribed treatment for UTI was ciprofloxacin in 7 cases; for CD4 recount, 61.5% of the patients had recounts < 200; 76.9% of the patients had viral load < 100.000 copies.