Table 1.
Epidemiology of febrile urinary tract infections (fUTI) after kidney transplantation (KTX). Due to rounding, numbers may not add up to exactly 100%
| Epidemiology of fUTI following renal transplantation in selected studies | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Microorganism | John [14] | Mueller [6] | Valera [47] | Alangaden [48] | Pellè [22] | Chuang [8] | Mahara [20] | Pape [49] | Haller [46] |
| Patients with UTI | 40/110 | 15/47 | 41/161 | 60/127 | 133/177 | 213/500 | 103/192 | 100 | 684 |
| Age group | Children | Children | Mostly adults (84%) | Adults | Adults | Adults | Adults | Nontransplanta | Nontransplantb |
| Episodes of UTI (n) | 56 | 35 | 58 | 60 | 595 | 213 | 173 | 100 | 684 |
| Gram-negative bacteria (%) | |||||||||
| Escherichia coli | 37 | 46 | 71 | 21 | 28 | 29 | 38 | 47 | 57 |
| Klebsiella | 4 | 3 | 5 | 15 | 3 | 10 | 8 | 4 | 5 |
| Proteus | 4 | 0 | 8 | 6 | |||||
| Other Enterobactericae | 6 | 9 | 6 | 13 | 4 | ||||
| Pseudomonas aeruginosa | 13 | 6 | 10 | 10 | 15 | 4 | 7 | 5 | 7 |
| Gram-positive bacteria (%) | |||||||||
| Staphylococcus aureus | 3 | 3 | 12 | 1 | |||||
| Enterococcus spp. | 15 | 3 | 33 | 24 | 24 | 26 | 23 | 14 | |
| S. epidermidis | 4 | 12 | 4 | ||||||
| Streptococci | 2 | 3 | 3 | 4 | |||||
| Fungal (%) | 5 | ||||||||
| Candida | 1 | 2 | |||||||
| Other (%) | 15 | 34 | 4 | 21 | 9 | 12 | 13 | 6 | |
| Total | 100 | 101 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 99 | 100 | 99 |
aCommunity-acquired UTI, excluded: renal diseases, anatomic abnormalities of the urinary tract, and recurrence
bEvaluation did not consider whether UTI was complicated or uncomplicated, the first or recurrent infection, or nosocomial or community-acquired