Resistance Profile of Bacterial Pathogens from Urinary Tract Infections

Abstract

UTIs (Urinary tract infection) are most common problem found in people most commonly in women. UTIs may cause chronic kidney infections, leading to permanent damage, including kidney scars, poor kidney function. UTIs are caused by microbes such as bacteria. UTIs have different names referring to the different parts of urinary tract.  Bladder infection = Cystisis.  Urethra infection = Urethritis.  Kidney infection = Pyelonephritis URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS are second most common infections after respiratory tract infections. UTI’s can infect any part of the urinary tract. Infection is generally treated by short course of antibiotics. With increased use of antibiotics UTI has become difficult to treat because of appearance of pathogens with increasing resistance towards antibiotics. In present study urine samples were collected from various laboratories located in Himachal Pradesh region. The samples were further processed and the pathogens were isolated and further characterized. After characterization susceptibility tests were performed for various antibiotics. Results were obtained for various susceptible and resistant strains using Antibiotic Susceptibility Testing. In total 32 samples of UTI were collected and processed. The findings to this study showed that females were at greater risk to Urinary Tract Infections and also E. coli was the most common causative agent with a prevalence of causing around 59% infections.