Increasing prevalence of antibiotic resistance and multi drug resistance among uropathogens.
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| ID: sea-112145
ABSTRACT
A study was conducted to examine the prevalence of antibiotic resistance in the strains of bacteria isolated from patients with suspected urinary tract infection. A total of 348 bacterial isolates were grown from semi quantitative urine culture and were of significant bacteriuria. The antibiotic susceptibility testing was performed on Muller-Hinton agar by disc diffusion method according to the standard criteria of the National Committee for Clinical Laboratory Standards, Antibiotic susceptibility testing revealed a high prevalence of resistance to ampicillin (55.4%) followed by nitrofurantoin (45.4%), gentamicin (45.1%), amikacin (41.4%) and co-trimoxazole (30.5%). E. coli and Klebsiella pneumonia showed 78.8 % and 75.3 % resistance to three or more drugs respectively. Cefotaxime (87.1%) appeared to be the most active antibiotic against the majority of isolates, followed by Norfloxacin (83.3%).
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Index:
IMSEAR (South-East Asia)
Main subject:
Urinary Tract Infections
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Female
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Humans
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Male
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Amikacin
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Gentamicins
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Microbial Sensitivity Tests
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Trimethoprim, Sulfamethoxazole Drug Combination
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Child
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Child, Preschool
Type of study:
Practice guideline
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Prevalence study
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Risk factors
Country/Region as subject:
Asia
Language:
English
Year:
2003
Type:
Article
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