Abstract:
Urinary tract infection is one of the most prevalent infections caused by different
pathogens. This study was designed to determine the prevalence and antimicrobial
susceptibility patterns of uropathogens among patients visiting Hasasa Health Center
from March to May 2016.A total of 384 patients participated in this study. Culturing
and identification of uropathogens were performed by using agar (Mac-Conkey agar
and blood agar) and biochemical test. Antimicrobial resistance testing was performed
by the Kerby Bauer disk diffusion method. Forty-four (44) uropathogens were isolated
from urine samples of the 384-suspected patients with 11.5%overall prevalence of all
isolates. The prevalence of Urinary Tract Infectionin female and male was 35(79.5%),
9(20.5% respectively. The highest prevalence of Urinary Tract Infectionis for the age
range of 19-28 (17.4%) followed by 29-38(11.8%), 9-18(8.3%), 39-48(7.5%), and
more than 49 (5.8%), respectively. Escherichia coli were the most prevalent isolates
(56.8%) among the isolates in this study. The other isolates were Proteus mirabilis,
Klebisiellapnemoniae, Enterococcus spp, and Enterobactersppwith respective
prevalence of 22.7 %, 13.6%, 4.6%, and 2.3%. The highest resistance of isolates was
observed toamoxicillin(88.6%)and lowest résistance was to nitrofurantoin (27.3%).All
isolates showed high sensitivity to nitrofurantoin (72.7%)and lowest sensitivity to
amoxicillin (11.4%). Over the last ten years (2005 to 2014)in the study area, Urinary
Tract Infectionprevalence shows a decreasing condition.In conclusion, the present study showed that,lower overall prevalence of Urinary Tract Infectionthan most of the
study conducted in other areas. So all stakeholder in the study area can participate in
prevention of UTI to keep the status or to reduce the prevalence more.
