The prevalence of urinary tract infections (UTIs), risk factors and postoperative outcomes has been long investigated but the results were controversial.

Our study indicated that rate of UTIs was high in kidney transplant patients. Female sex, elderly age, long duration of catheter, acute rejection episodes and cadaveric donor will increase the risk of UTIs.

This study is an extension of our previous work on hospital-acquired infection of different disease, such as renal transplantation, haemodialysis and acute leukemia, etc.