This book provides a review of essential research on urinary tract
infections (UTIs), as well as a broader perspective on methodologies
adopted for the isolation and identification of the bacteria from urine
samples of pregnant and non-pregnant women on the basis of their
cultural, morphological and biochemical characteristics. The
identification is extended to the strain level by means of molecular
identification involving BLAST as a bioinformatics tool. The book also
addresses the roles of various other bioinformatics tools for tracing
the phylogenetic tree and conservation studies among the bacteriocin of
the identified bacteria. Lastly, it assesses the antibiotics resistance
patterns of these isolates.