Urinary tract infection is a clinical or histopathologic state as a direct result of bacterial colonization in tissues of any part of the urinary tree. (2) This study applied correlational design was performed in the hospital IPSS Tarapoto II, during the year 1994 in order to determine the epidemiological characteristics of pregnant women with urinary tract infection. Our study sample consisted of 181 women with pathological result of urinary sediment, in which after the short preparation and guidance urine sample was selected to perform the respective urine culture. After analysis and processing of data found that 36.5% percent of the patients studied had positive urine culture and 63.5% percent had negative urine culture. The parity and maternal history of abortion and vaginitis were factors associated with urinary tract infection. The most common uropathogens were isolated: Escherichi...

El objetivo fue determinar los factores de riesgo a infección de vías urinarias en gestantes atendidas en el Centro de Salud Banda de Shilcayo - San Martín. 2018. Método: Cuantitativa, retrospectivo, analítico de corte transversal. Estudio de caso-control. Población conformada por 393 gestantes, de los cuales se extrajo una muestra representativa de 90 gestantes: 30 que presentaron infección de vías urinarias (casos) y 60 sin diagnóstico de infección urinaria (control). Resultados: Entre los factores de riesgo sociodemográficos a infección de vías urinarias encontramos al grado de instrucción (OR=3,143; IC=2.315-4.267) y nivel socioeconómico bajo (OR=7,250; IC=0.895-58.699). Asimismo, la higiene inadecuada (OR=2.750; IC=1.059-7.142) y la edad gestacional < 37 semanas (OR = 8.826; IC=1.101-70.740), anemia (OR = 2.765; IC=1.071-7.134), Antecedentes Obstétricos Patológicos ...