Etiology and susceptbility to antimicrobials of urinary tract infections in patients of Rehabilitation Unit of a regional hospital

<p>Objectives: Knowing the results of microbiological tests of urine samples of patients from the Rehabilitation Unit of<br>a regional hospital, including local data of antibiotic susceptibility.<br>Material and methods: We analyzed the database of the Microbiology Laboratory of the Hospital Universitario<br>Virgen de las Nieves with microbiological studies conducted urine samples during 2012. We investigated the etiology<br>and antimicrobial susceptibility of uropathogens frequently present in 143 urine samples. The 9066 survey results<br>voiding urine mean in Primary Care study subjects were used as controls.<br>Results: The 50% of neurological patients had positive urine cultures, versus 23% of controls. E. coli was the most<br>frequently isolated organism group neurological patients, as in the controls. Resistance studies in E. coli showed high<br>rates of resistance to ampicillin, cotrimoxazole, ciprofloxacin and amoxicillin with clavulanic acid.<br>Conclusions: E. coli is the most frequently isolated microorganism in both groups of patients studied. The antibiotic<br>resistance of microorganisms from the two groups have different patterns, being globally less to fosfomycin.</p> <p>