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. 2013 Sep 1;2(5):59–69. doi: 10.7453/gahmj.2013.061

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Etiologies of bacterial urinary tract infection (UTI) in pregnancy with an emphasis on Staphylococcus aureus.

A comparison of clinical studies that performed screening of pregnant women for bacteriuria and a breakdown of the etiologies involved. Studies included pregnant women studied in 10 countries.²⁵^-⁴⁰ Bars farthest to the right provide a comparison to the microbial etiologies of neonatal sepsis in Nigeria and Ethiopia.⁵⁰^,¹⁰⁶ Note in particular the striking similarity between etiologies of maternal UTI and neonatal sepsis in Nigeria. Studies that are short of 100% did not provide detailed identifications for the remaining isolates.

Abbreviation: CN, coagulase-negative.