ABSTRACT
This prospective study was designed to find out the prevalent organisms and their sensitivy pattern in indoor catheterized patients. Six hundred urine sample of indoor catheterized patients were collected from the catheter, quantatively cultured and their susceptibility to various antibiotics was tested. Among 600 patients, 402 were males and 198 females. The age of the patients was between 3-90 years. Among 600 urine sample, 341 [56.8%] were positive for causative agents [> 105 bacteria/ml] while 259 [43.2%] urine sample were negative. Escherichia coli [24.9%], Klebsiella pneumoniae [21.9%], mixed [14.3%], Pseudomonas aeruginosa [10.5%] and candida species [9.9%] were the major isolates which constituted 81.5% of the total isolates. The sensitive pattern of all the organisms has dramatically changed when compared with the previous studies and there was not a single antibiotic which has shown an overall 100% sensitivity against the most common urinary pathogens. Considering the resistance situation, amikacin, aztreonam, tobramycin and cefoperazone in that order can be recommended as a blind therapy for seriously ill septicaemic patients associated with urinary tract infection before we get culture and sensitivity report