Home|Journals|Articles by Year|Audio Abstracts
 

Original Research



Antibiotic susceptibility of escherichia coli strains isolates determined as a cause of urinary tract infection in pediatric patients

Ali Gozukucuk, Basri Cakiroglu.




Abstract

Urinary tract infections (UTIs) are bacterial infections that are most commonly encountered by physicians in all age groups both in the Nasocomial hospital and community acquired hospital. International guidelines are used for the selection of antibiotics. However, it is recommended to adopt the international guidelines into local epidemiological data before using it to select the routine treatment. In this study, it was aimed to determine the antimicrobial susceptibility of Escherichia coli (E.Coli) strains isolated from urinary tract infections in children applied due to urinary system infections and treated accordingly. It was designed to be examined to be raised from 249 children, with sales route design and sale to the pediatric and urinary outpatient clinic between July 1, 2019 and July 1, 2020. 210 patients with n≥105 cfu/ml bacteria. Patients with vesicourethral reflux and neurogenic patients were excluded from the study. At the same time, people who can be displayed in the products that have been in use in the last six months and people who have grown Klebsiella, Proteus mirabilis, Candida and ESBL positive bacteria. 98 cultures included in the study were evaluated The mean age of totally 98 patients including 84 females and 14 males diagnosed with urinary tract infection was 37 (1-192) months. There was a statistically significant difference between each group with respect to age and they were as F:49 month and M: 9 respectively (p

Key words: Children, urinary tract infections, urine culture, E.coli, antibiotics






Full-text options


Share this Article


Online Article Submission
• ejmanager.com




ejPort - eJManager.com
Refer & Earn
JournalList
About BiblioMed
License Information
Terms & Conditions
Privacy Policy
Contact Us

The articles in Bibliomed are open access articles licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY), which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.