Table 2.

Recovered isolates from pregnant women presenting with asymptomatic bacteriuria

		Tamale Central Hospital
		Gram Positives			Gram Negatives
Age/Yrs	Frequency (%)	S. aureus	CoNS	Strept.	E. coli	Kleb.sp	Entero.	Serratia	Pseud.
<  20	3 (3.8)	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
20–29	50 (64.1)	14	19	1	6	4	4	2	0
30–39	23 (29.5)	7	7	2	5	0	0	0	0
40–49	2 (2.6)	0	0	0	0	1	6	0	1
Total	78 (100)	23	27	3	11	4	7	2	1
		Tamale Teaching Hospital
		Gram Positives			Gram Negatives
Age/Yrs	Frequency (%)	S. aureus	CoNS	Strept.	E. coli	Kleb.sp	Entero.	Serratia
<  20	1 (3.1)	0	0	1	0	0	0	0
20–29	21 (65.6)	5	11	0	1	1	1	2
30–39	10 (31.3)	6	2	0	0	1	1	0
40–49	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Total	32 (100)	11	13	1	1	2	2	2

Strept. Streptococcus sp, Kleb. klebsiella sp, Entero. Enterobacter sp, pseud. pseudomonas sp, CoNS coagulase negative Staphylococcus