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

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