الملخص

The study includes the isolation and identification of bacteria causing urinary tract infection (UTI) for 372 diabetic patients , 125 of them were males , 247 females and 95 healthy controls , their ages ranged between 11-71 years. The study showed that UTI caused by different micro organisms at a rate of 66.13% of the diabetic patients , 69.9 % of them were females , while 30.1 % were males , UTI increased significantly with age in both sexes especially after the age of 40 years for diabetic non-insulin dependent patients . UTI in diabetic patients was caused by different genera of bacteria compared with those in non-diabetic as the bacteria isolated was CUrobacler ,Serratia , Morganella , Salmonella , Staph. Epidermidis and Alcaligens in diabetic patients only , in spite of the different types of bacteria isolated E.coli , Klebsiella and Staph. aurleus showed a prevalence among the other causes in spite of the different isolation rates of both groups.