Evolution of Our Experience in Diagnosis and Therapy for Urinary Infections

Abstract

The therapy for urinary infections is advised according to the antibiogram; the symptoms request an empirical therapy based on urinary infections knowledge and drugs spectrum activity. We considered the urinoculture performed on 3834 patients, 3012 male and 822 female, hospitalized in our Institute in the period between 01/01/2005 and 31/10/2006; 444 of these were positive (12.7 % - 451 bacterial strains). Table 1: bacterial strains isolaed. We reported some evaluations obtained by antibiogram. E. coli strains Ciprofloxacin sensitive resulted in 60% of cases. Enterococcus species and Enterococcus faecalis strains Ampicillin sensitive resulted in 96.4% and 100% of cases, respectively. In this study there is a Gram negative prevalence, whereas we had previously observed an equivalence between Gram negative and Gram positive (p 0.001). These data are useful for empirical therapy.