Gender and Age-Dependent Etiology of Community-Acquired Urinary Tract Infections
Table 3
Distribution of urine pathogens according to age groups and gender. Data are reported as number of isolates and percentages (within brackets) of total patients in each age group.
Organism
Age groups
Gender
≤14 years
15–29 years
30–59 years
≥60 years
All
703a
841
4167
8109
Females
415
783
3615
6134
Males
288
58
552
1975
E. coli
All
414 (58.9)
597 (71.0)
2959 (71.0)
5374 (66.3)
0.0005b
Female
266 (64.1)
562 (71.8)
2591 (71.7)
4344 (70.8)
< 0.0001c
Male
148 (51.3)
35 (60.3)
368 (66.7)
1030 (52.2)
K. pneumoniae
All
43 (6.1)
77 (9.2)
369 (8.6)
715 (8.8)
0.4244
Female
26 (6.3)
71 (9.1)
325 (9.0)
573 (9.3)
0.5626
Male
17 (5.9)
6 (10.3)
44 (8.0)
142 (7.2)
E. faecalis
All
18 (2.6)
45 (5.4)
258 (6.2)
547 (6.7)
0.0004
Female
14 (3.4)
42 (5.4)
222 (6.1)
318 (5.2)
0.9935
Male
4 (1.4)
3 (5.2)
36 (6.5)
229 (11.6)
P. mirabilis
All
110 (15.6)
31 (3.7)
160 (3.8)
422 (5.2)
0.0055
Female
49 (11.8)
24 (3.1)
128 (3.5)
264 (4.3)
<0.0001
Male
61 (21.2)
7 (12.1)
32 (5.8)
158 (8.0)
P. aeruginosa
All
40 (5.7)
10 (1.2)
37 (0.9)
258 (3.2)
<0.0001
Female
21(5.1)
6 (0.8)
19 (0.5)
103 (1.7)
<0.0001
Male
19 (6.6)
4 (6.9)
18 (3.3)
155 (7.8)
S. agalactiae
All
2 (0.3)
31 (3.7)
157 (3.8)
123 (1.5)
<0.0001
Female
1 (0.2)
31 (4.0)
150 (4.1)
88 (1.4)
0.0939
Male
1 (0.3)
0 (0)
7 (1.3)
35 (1.8)
apatients’ numbers; logistic regression analysis among age groups of distribution of isolation rates in bAll patients or cby Gender.
