Agentes etiológicos de infecciones urinarias en adultos mayores de un centro de salud del estado Carabobo, Venezuela

• Main Authors: Capozzi Enza, Mobili Rocaro Davide, Kornett Ana G, Perdomo María V
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; Spanish
• Published: Universidad del Zulia,Facultad de Medicina,Departamento de Enfermedades Infecciosas y Tropicales 2016
• Subjects: Infecciones urinarias; urocultivo; adultos mayores; Urinary infections; urine culture; older adults; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Public aspects of medicine; RA1-1270; Arctic
• Online Access: https://doaj.org/article/415f9b8d3ca44eb3bc7bd5a7604cf791

Abstract: Urinary tract infections (UTI) are a common problem in medical practice, the etiology and susceptibility that produce the UTI may vary over time. It was conducted a study of no-experimental descriptive in order to detect the causative organisms of urinary tract infections and antimicrobial susceptibility in older adults residing in a health center of Carabobo state. They were evaluated 57 urine samples for bacteriological culture and the recovered microorganisms underwent susceptibility testing by disk diffusion method in agar (Kirby-Bauer). The most frequently isolated microorganisms in the ITU were Escherichia coli (53.84% and Klebsiella pneumoniae (15.40%), among others. In the antimicrobial susceptibility testing, the antibiotics that showed better antimicrobial activity were nitrofurantoin and amikacin (84.62%) each one, followed by gentamicin (76.92%) for all the Gramnegative bacilli recovered. The greater resistance was observed in ampicillin (61.54%), followed by trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole (53.85%) and ciprofloxacin (46.15%), in enteric Gram-negative bacilli. In the present study was found a greater presence of Escherichia coli in the UTI as well as better antimicrobial activity of nitrofurantoin, amikacin and gentamicin against all the bacteria recovered. Resumen: Las infecciones del tracto urinario (ITU) representan un problema común en la práctica médica, la etiología y susceptibilidad que la producen pueden variar a través del tiempo. Se realizó un estudio de tipo descriptivo, no experimental con el objetivo de detectar los microorganismos causales de infecciones urinarias y susceptibilidad antimicrobiana en adultos mayores que residen en un centro de salud del Estado Carabobo. Fueron evaluadas 57 muestras de orina por cultivo bacteriológico, y a los microorganismos recuperados se les practico las pruebas de susceptibilidad por el método de difusión con discos en agar (Kirby-Bauer). Los microorganismos aislados con mayor frecuencia en las ITU fueron Escherichia coli (53,84%) y Klebsiella ...