Antibiotic Resistance Pattern of Uropathogens: An Experience from North Indian Cancer Patient

Empirical treatment of urinary tract infections (UTIs) can be made evidence based if it is governed by the resistance pattern of common uropathogens. A retrospective study was carried out at a tertiary care cancer institute to identify the common uropathogens and to know their resistance profile. 20...

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Autores principales: Ahmed, Nishat Hussain, Raghuraman, Kausalya, Baruah, Frincy Khandelwal, Grover, Rajesh K.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2015
Materias:
Microbiology Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4557140/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26392719
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-777X.161742
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Sumario:Empirical treatment of urinary tract infections (UTIs) can be made evidence based if it is governed by the resistance pattern of common uropathogens. A retrospective study was carried out at a tertiary care cancer institute to identify the common uropathogens and to know their resistance profile. 20.82% of the outpatients’ urine samples (community-acquired urinary tract infection (CA-UTI)) and 24.83% of the indoor patients’ urine samples (hospital-acquired urinary tract infection (HA-UTI)) grew uropathogens. Escherichia coli was the predominant pathogen both in CA-UTI (68%) and HA-UTI (45%) followed by Klebsiella spp and Enterococcus spp. High level of resistance to fluoroquinolones and third generation cephalosporins was noted. Nitrofurantoin was found to be a reliable oral drug for treatment of most of the uropathogens.

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