The Effect of Gender Differences on Prevalence and Microbial Spectrum of Asymptomatic Bacteriuria

Abstract

We conducted an experiment to test whether someone’s gender influences their risk of acquiring asymptomatic bacteriuria. We started off by collecting 12 urine samples from female students and 12 from male students, these were students from the Libyan International Medical University. We then cultured those samples and counted the colony-forming units on each plate after leaving them overnight. We found that there were more colonies on the samples we obtained from the females compared to the ones from the males. This was predicted as we are aware of the many factors that put females at higher risk for acquiring such infections. To see whether the growths were significant or not we ran the results through statistical software and we concluded that only a small fraction was significant and that the entire small fraction came from the female samples.