المستخلص: |
Urinary tract infections (UTIs) are one of the most prevalent extra-intestinal bacterial infections that can affect anyone at any age where the infection rate is higher in woman than man. Many reports suggest that the rate of antibiotic resistance to infectious organisms is increasing. These infections are on the increase for outpatients attending Primary Health Centers and out patient department of Central Hospital in Zliten City, Libya. This study aimed to determine the etiological agents of patients with urinary tract infection from a small semi-urban city in Libya and the association of age, gender, and departments of hospital, as well as testing the susceptibility of bacterial strains isolated from patient admitted to Central Hospital in Zliten to different antimicrobial agents to determine the dominant phenotype pattern of resistance of antibiotics. Using standard microbiological techniques we examined urine specimens collected from 1165 patients with urinary tract pain during January 2013 to December 2013. Standard microbiological techniques were used to examine urine specimen samples and BD Phoenix Automated Microbiology System were used to determine the susceptibility of bacterial isolates against antimicrobial agents. We detected a causative agent in 434/1165 patients (37.3%).The most frequently isolated uropathogenic bacteria from patients with urinary tract infection were Escherichia coli 146/434 (33.6), klebsiella pneumonia 60/434 (13.8%) and Staphylococcus haemolyticus 51/434 (11.8%). With very few exceptions, no differences were observed in the antimicrobial resistance profiles of uropathogens isolated from the patients.
|