Antibiotic Resistance Pattern of Bacteria Isolated from Patients of Urinary Tract Infections in Iraq

Abstract

<p> <b><span>Objectives:</span></b><span> </span><span>The main objective of this study was to investigate the bacterial infections of urinary tract in patients with urolithiasis. The patients were referred to and/or visiting the Urology Department in Tikrit Teaching Hospital in Tikrit city.</span><span> </span><b><span>Methods:</span></b><span> The present study was carried out from November 2011 until July 2012. One hundred and sixty patients with urolithiasis were included in the present study whose ages ranged from 12 to 70 years. Male to female ratio was almost 2:1. The control group consisted </span><span>of </span><span>two grou<span>ps; group one consist</span></span><span>ed</span><span> of </span><span>40 persons (20 males and 20 females) who were selected randomly from Tikrit city during the period of this study and they had no previous personal nor family history of urolithiasis, while group two consist of 40 persons</span><span> </span><span>(20 males and 20 females) infected with urinary tract infection. Urine culture was done for all the patients and the control group.</span><span> </span><b><span>Results:</span></b><span> Forty five percent (45/160) of these had UTI’s. Six patients revealed mixed bacterial growth. Eighty-four percent (38/45) of patients with UTI were infected with gram negative organisms where as only 16% (7/45) of patients were infected with gram positive organisms. The majority of the gram negative bacteria isolated belonged to the family <i>Enterobacteriaceae </i>particularly <i>E.</i></span><i><span> </span><span>coli </span></i><span>as it was isolated from 14 (31%) cases. The urease producing bacteria were isolated from 31 cases (50%).</span><span> </span><b><span>Conclusions:</span></b><span> UTI’s in urolithiasis was more frequent in females than males and the percentages were 28/45 and 17/45 respectively. The most effective antimicrobial agent was amikacin and the least effective one was ampicillin,</span><span> </span><span>whereas ciprofloxacin,</span><span> </span><span>cefoxitin, levofloxacin,</span><span> </span><span>nitrofurantoin, nalidixic acid, chloramphenicol, amoxycillin and gentamicin were effective at different levels.</span><span></span> </p

Antibiotic susceptibility patterns of Uropathogenic Escherichia coli among patients with urinary tract infections in a tertiary care hospital in Maiduguri, North Eastern, Nigeria

“…In this study, the susceptibility of Chloramphenicol was 70.0%, making it the second most efficacious drug. This outcome corroborates the findings of Tansarli et al (2013) and Al-Jebouri and Mdish (2013) that reported the susceptibility of Chloramphenicol to vary from 57 to 72% among Africa and Asia countries. The encouraging susceptibility of these isolates to Chloramphenicol cannot be farfetched from the fact that it is strictly regulated and it is not preferred to be commonly used for medication as it might cause aplastic anaemia.…”

Tracing of Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria Isolated from Semen of Iraqi Males with Primary Infertility

“…These results were corresponding to those results being reported by Mogra and his colleagues [8], Shefi and Turek [9]. Also, the present result was almost similar to other works reported elsewhere [10] [11]. The results in Figure 1 were statistically analyzed which showed that there was a strong relationship between the bacteriospermia and abnormal morphology of semen in infertile male (P < 0.05).…”

“…This result almost similar to these reported by Golshani and his colleagues [10] who stated that semen specimens of infertile men, especially those contain the high number of Staphylococcus spp., E. coli and Enterococci isolates, had high rate of non-motile and morphologically abnormal sperms. Philip and Folstad [11] confirmed that there was a significant positive effect of antibiotic treatment for the following sperm parameters: sperm volume, sperm concentration, sperm motility and sperm morphology.…”

Incidence of Ciprofloxacin-Resistant of Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolated from Iraqi patients

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