BACTERIAL PATHOGEN IN URINARY TRACT INFECTION AND ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE PATTEERN IN ZARAQA -JORDAN
Abstract
This study aimed to isolate the pathogenic agents involving Urinary
Tract Infections (UTI) in Zarqa city and to evaluate their antibiotic resistance
pattern. Bacterial isolation and identificaction was conducted using standard
methods. From 3756 urine sample collected from patients with UTI
symptoms 392 (10.4 %) show positive urine cultures of which 318 (81 %)
were females and 74 (19 %) were males. Among the isolated pathogen E.
coli was the most frequent bacteria (80.8%) folloewd by Klebsiella spp.
(11.7%), while Staphylococcus aureus was the least frequent bacteria
(0.08%). All the isolated pathogens resist one or more antibiotic, E. coli and
Klebsiella spp possessed high resitence to ampicillin (84.18 and 89.13%)
respectively. One E. coil (0.32) isolate showed resistant against all tested
antibiotics. Gram-negative bacteria were the major isolates in this study, and
E. coli was the predominant isolated bacteria. The knowledge of antibiotic
sensitivity pattern in this study will be helpful for the effective treatment of
the UTI in this population.