Phylogentic Analysis of E. coli Bacteria Isolated from Iraqi UTI Patients

Abstract

A total of 200 clinical specimens of midstream urine were collected from Iraqi patients suffering from UTIs from Al-Salam teaching hospital. An extra only 10 of mid-stream urine specimens were collected from apparently healthy Iraqi individuals; hence considered as the control group. All specimens were collected from November 2021 to February 2022. All mid-stream urine specimens for patients and control groups were cultured on blood agar and MacConkey agar. All control specimens yield no growth, on the contrary, all patient specimens were culture positive. According to the cultural, morphological, biochemical characteristics, and VITEK, the results showed 86.5% of UTI patients have bacterial growth and 13.5% have not bacterial infection, the isolated bacteria was distributed as 57 (28.5%), 46 (23%), 25 (12.5%), 19 (9.5%), 11 (5.5%), and 15 (7.5%) were identified as Escherichia coli, Staphylococcus aureus, Klebsiella pneumonia., Enterococcus farcalis, Proteus mirabilis., and other types (low number of bacteria lower than103), respectively. Also, the results noted the most UTI patients were female, while in control group were male.