Etiology and antibiotic resistance patterns of urinary tract infections in Thi –Qar Governorate

Urinary tract infections (UTI) remain the common infection diagnosed in outpatients and in hospetilized patients and the current knowledge on antibiotic susceptibility pattern is essential for appropriate therapy. Fiftieth urine samples from symptomatic UTI patients (4 males and 46 females) attending to different health cares and general hospitals in Thi – Qar Governorate were accumulated and identify 45 cases (90%) as infected with single bacterial isolate. E. coli was the most common bacteria with 17 isolates (37.7%) followed by Staphylococcus saprophyticus with 14 isolates (31.1%). Antimicrobial susceptibility testing was performed by Kirby Bauer’s disc diffusion method and the result explain that Ciprofloxacin and Tetracycline have highly effective on the urinary isolates with different percentage of sensitivity, while Amoxicillin, penicillin, Trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazol and Cefotaxim have low effectiveness against the urinary isolates with different percentage of resistance.