PREVALENCE AND ANTIBACTERIAL SUSCEPTIBILITY TESTING PATTERN OF BACTERIAL PATHOGENS CAUSING URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS IN COMMUNITY
Journal Title: Journal of Evolution of Medical and Dental Sciences - Year 2016, Vol 5, Issue 30
Abstract
BACKGROUND To determine the prevalence and antimicrobial susceptibility pattern of isolated bacteria from suspected urinary tract infections in the community. Urinary Tract Infection (UTI) is a term applied to a variety of conditions ranging from asymptomatic presence of bacteria in the urine to severe infection of the kidney with sepsis. METHODS Mid-stream urine samples were collected in aseptic conditions and processed. The organisms were identified based on cultural characteristics, microscopy and biochemical reactions. The antibiotic susceptibility testing was done by Kirby Bauer disc diffusion method. RESULTS Out of 401 samples, bacterial isolates were positive for 43 samples. Among them most prevalent organism is Escherichia coli followed by Klebsiella pneumoniae, Enterococcus, Staphylococcus, Pseudomonas and Proteus Spp. CONCLUSION In this study most of the organisms are resistant against ampicillin and sensitive against nitrofurantoin and amikacin. So the empirical treatment of the UTI patients with these drugs can give immediate recovery from the infection, so that further systemic spread of the infection can be prevented.
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Vellanki Madhavi , Puppala
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