[Etiologic factors in urinary tract infection investigated in ambulatory setting. Community-acquired urinary tract infection: etiologic aspects and antibiotic resistance].

Urine bacteriological examination is one of the most frequently asked for examinations, in ambulatory as well as in hospitals, regarding specialty prophyle. The present study comprises a group of 3971 pacients that were sent to the laboratory for uroculture and showed a percentage of only 21.85% significant urocultures--the etiological groups most frequently isolated being Gram-negative bacilli--96.