National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS)
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PRINT ISSN : 2319-7692
Online ISSN : 2319-7706 Issues : 12 per year Publisher : Excellent Publishers Email : editorijcmas@gmail.com / submit@ijcmas.com Editor-in-chief: Dr.M.Prakash Index Copernicus ICV 2018: 95.39 NAAS RATING 2020: 5.38 |
Urinary tract infection is one of the most common bacterial infections especially in developing countries. It shows lot of regional variation in causative pathogens and antimicrobial susceptibility pattern. Hence requires regular regionwise surveillance. Urine samples received at microbiology laboratory from patients with symptomatology of urinary tract infection were included in the study. All the samples were processed according to standard protocol, identification and antibiotic susceptibility testing was done. Antibiotics tested were ampicillin, cotrimoxazole, amikacin, gentamicin, piperacillin-tazobactum, ciprofloxacin, imipenem, meropenem, nitrofurantoin, ceftriaxone, cefepime and cefaperazone-sulbactum. Prevalence of urinary tract infection was found to be 33%.female preponderance of 56.08% was seen over males 43.91%. Patients in the age group of 40-60 years (34.96%) were found to be more affected. Escherichia coli was the predominant bacteria isolated (42.22%).Antibiotic susceptibility profile exhibited least resistance to imipenem, meropenem, nitrofurantoin and amikacin by gram negative bacteria. Gram positive bacteria showed least resistance to vancomycin and linezolid. Treatment to urinary tract infection is usually started empirically. knowledge of susceptibility pattern of common pathogens isolated in this area can guide the physician and help in limiting the antibiotic resistance.
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