Study of bacteria isolated from urinary tract infections of patient attending Tikrit Teaching Hospital for the year 2014 and its sensitivity to commonly used antibiotics

Abstract

Urinary tract infection(UTI) is consider as a common  infection and in spite of  the availability  of antibiotics,  UTI has become  difficult  to treat because  of  the  increasing resistance  of pathogenic  bacteria  to antibiotics  .This  research  was  done  to detect  the uropathogens of urinary tract in individuals attending Tikrit Teaching Hospital (T.T.H.) . complaining  from  UTLThe  present   study  was  carried  out  from  November   2013to February   2014 and 63 urine samples were  examined 29 were from males and 34 from females,  from those  81% has a positive  culture,  while  19% was  negative.   Also,  the current study appeared  that  females  were  more  frequently  effected  than  males,  and the  most common   isolated   bacteria  was  Pseudomonas    aeruginosa,    while  the  less  isolated  one  was the Enterococcus.  Using 10 tested antibiotics, the best acting antibiotic was the Amikacin, while the less effective antibiotic was the Ampicillin.