This study includes (409)pregnant women elected from patients who have been
admitted to the department of obstetrics and gynecology or outpatient clinic belonging to
Assad University Hospital in Lattakia during the study period from 01/09/2014 up t
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01/09/2015.patients have been classified in tow groups: symptomatic and non
symptomatic(109 and 300 patient respectively).It has been diagnosed asymptomatic
bacteriuria in accordance with the standard (Edward Kass) at a rate (12%).We found that
the age lesser than 30 years, is a risk factor important in the occurrence of urinary infection
,there is no importance for the pattern of work, and most of the cases of the asymptomatic
bacteriuria is in the second trimester (14-28 weeks) and multigravida account of (73.9 %)
of the group of bacteriuric asymptomatic patients.Study shows that the bacterial urine
culture is the golden diagnostic test to detect urinary tract infection in pregnant women,
and it also shows the non-reliability of the urinalysis test, because of the high false
negativity in the diagnosis of asymptomatic bacteriuria .Escherichia coli was the most
common bacterial organisim causing bacterial urinary infections in patients study, by
66.7% for a frank urinary sepsis, and 80.2% for the group asymptomatic bacteriuria .