Prevalence and Microbial Resistance of Uropathogenic Bacteria Isolated from Neonatal and Pediatric Patients in Western of Iran

Magnitude and associated factors of bacterial urinary tract infections among paediatric patients in Arba Minch, southern Ethiopia

“…A recent multinational systematic review dealing with UTI in children revealed that one out of seven (14%) cases are caused by ESBL-producing Enterobacteriaceae [ 8 ]. Moreover, in developing countries, more than 80% of bacterial strains causing UTI in children are now resistant to co-trimoxazole, an antibiotic commonly prescribed for the treatment of uncomplicated UTI [ 20 ]. Findings from previous studies on childhood UTI in other parts of Ethiopia indicated that multi-drug resistant (MDR) bacterial uropathogens are rising, and geographical variations of common bacterial etiologies of UTI exist in the country [ 21 , 22 ].…”

Assessment of Mitigation Measures in Preventing Bacterial Infections in Selected Public Health Centres in Akure, Ondo State

“…According to Prescott et al [1], the number of patients visiting a hospital is a pointer to the number of visitors that will visit such hospital. Mansouri et al [15], stated that this point is well abused in developing countries were a patient has multiple visitors coming daily when they are on hospital admission. Due to this reason, Tikhomirov [16], concluded that the floor, door handle as well as the chairs which these visitors have direct contact with cannot be devoid of bacteria, especially pathogenic ones.…”

“…The regular treatments of the drainage system of hospitals with germicides as well as use of mosquito nets in wards have been noted to help reduce nosocomial infection from series of studies [14,15,17]. This habit was only seen to be practiced by one health centre (Obal-Ile) out of the six health centres studied.…”