Clinical Microbiology: Open Access

Bacterial identification and drug susceptibility pattern of urinary tract infection in pregnant women at Karamara Hospital, Jigjiga, Eastern Ethiopia

Joint Event on 25^th Asia Pacific Biotechnology Congress & 3^rd International Conference on Medical and Clinical Microbiology

May 01-02, 2019 Kyoto, Japan

Adugna Negussie, Getenet Worku and Ermiyas Beyene

Arsi University, Ethiopia

Posters & Accepted Abstracts: Clin Microbiol

Abstract:

Urinary tract infections are the most common bacterial infections during pregnancy and if left untreated in pregnancy it may result in acute pyelonephritis, abortion, premature delivery, low birth baby and even still birth. Thus, the aim of this study is to determine the bacterial profile and antibiotic susceptibility patterns of urinary tract infection in pregnant women at Karamara Hospital, Jigjiga, Eastern Ethiopia. A cross-sectional study was carried out amongst 190 pregnant women at Karamara Hospital. Clean catch midstream urine was collected and cultured on MacConkey and Blood agar for isolation and on Mueller Hinton agar media for antibiotic sensitivity tests. The present study showed that overall prevalence of UTI was 13.2%. Escherichia coli was the most frequently isolated organism 10 (40%) followed by Citrobacter spp., Klebsiella spp., Coagulase negative Staphylococci (CoNS) and Staphylococcus aureus each 3 (12%), Proteus species 2 (8%) and Pseudomonas aeruginosa 1 (4%). Gram-negative isolates showed high resistance rate of 89.5% and 84.2% to Amoxicillin and Ampicillin, respectively. All Gram negative bacterial isolates revealed low level of resistance (26.3%) against Ciprofloxacin. Among the total isolates (n=25), multi drug resistance (resistance for two or more drugs) were observed in 24 (96%) of all bacterial pathogen from urine specimen. The present study revealed bacterial agents which causing urinary tract infections amongst pregnant women were multidrug resistant. E. coli is the most common isolated bacteria from mid-stream urine specimen.

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