**Meet the editor**

Dr. Payam Behzadi was born in 1973 in Tehran, Iran. He began his collaboration with the Department of Microbiology, College of Basic Sciences, Shahr-e-Qods Branch, Islamic Azad University, as a faculty member (with an MSc degree in Microbiology) in 2004. He finally attained his PhD degree in Molecular biology in 2016 (BSc and MSc in Microbiology; PhD in Molecular Biology) and

now continues his scientific activities in the position of assistant professor at the same university. He teaches several students from different academic levels, including BSc, MSc, and PhD. Dr. Behzadi has authored and edited more than 15 chapters in academic books and more than 55 original and review articles. His scientific research interests are urinary tract infections, bioinformatics, genetics, gene profiling, and molecular biology. Dr. Behzadi trains as an ice skater in his free time.

Contents

**Preface VII**

Payam Behzadi

**Infection 23**

**of Russia 85**

Ashiqur Rahman Khan

Chapter 4 **Urinary Tract Infection in Diabetics 45** Ajay Kumar Prajapati

Chapter 5 **Urinary Tract Infections in Neuro-Patients 61**

Luchaninova Valentina Nikolaevna

Chapter 6 **Phenotypic and Genetic Diversity of Uropathogenic**

Charalampos Konstantinidis and Achilleas Karafotias

Chapter 1 **Introductory Chapter: An Overview on Urinary Tract Infections,**

Md. Mahabubul Islam Majumder, Tarek Ahmed, Saleh Ahmed and

**Enterococcus faecalis Strains Isolated in the Primorsky Region**

Zaitseva Elena Aleksandrovna, Komenkova Tatiana Sergeevna, Melnikova Elena Aleksandrovna, Shadrin Andrey Mikhailovich and

**Pathogens, and Risk Factors 1**

Chapter 2 **Virulence Factors of Uropathogenic E. coli 7** Sorwer Alam Parvez and Dolilur Rahman

Chapter 3 **Microbiology of Catheter Associated Urinary Tract**
