ArticleDiseases (Basel, Switzerland)2017
Risk of Asymptomatic Bacteriuria among People with Sickle Cell Disease in Accra, Ghana.
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- Characterization of urinary Escherichia coli isolates in HIV-seropositive women with asymptomatic bacteriuria in Western Ghana.BMC microbiology · 2025Article
- Haemato-Urological Profile and Asymptomatic Urinary Tract Infection in Ghanaian Steady-State Sickle Cell Disease Patients: A Case-Control Study.Health science reports · 2025Article
- High Prevalence of ESBL Genes in CommensalGenes · 2024Article
- Systemic T Cell Subsets and Cytokines in Patients With Homozygous Sickle Cell Disease and Asymptomatic Urinary Tract Infections in Togo.Ochsner journal · 2021Article
- Occurrence of Multidrug-resistant Uropathogens Implicated in Asymptomatic Bacteriuria in Adults with Sickle Cell Disease in Ile-Ife, Southwest Nigeria.Oman medical journal · 2020Article
- Leucocytosis and Asymptomatic Urinary Tract Infections in Sickle Cell Patients at a Tertiary Hospital in Zambia.Anemia · 2020Article
- Community acquired urinary tract infections among adults in Accra, Ghana.Infection and drug resistance · 2019Article
- Escherichia coli bacteriuria in pregnant women in Ghana: antibiotic resistance patterns and virulence factors.BMC research notes · 2018Article
- Hematological parameters in Ghanaian sickle cell disease patients.Journal of blood medicine · 2018Article
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Abstract
Asymptomatic bacteriuria (ASB) is benign except in certain medical conditions such as pregnancy and immunosuppression. In Ghana, there are hardly any studies on urinary infections among sickle cell disease (SCD) patients, and the few studies carried out in Africa focused on pediatric SCD populations. The current study aimed to investigate the risk of ASB among SCD patients at a tertiary hospital in Ghana. This was a cross-sectional study involving 110 SCD patients and 110 age and sex matched healthy controls. Urine specimens were collected from all the study subjects and analyzed by standard microbiological methods. Demographic information were also collected from the study subjects. The overall ASB prevalence was significantly higher among SCD patients (17.2%) than among the control group (8.2%), and the relative risk was 2.11 (
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