Prevalence and antimicrobial sensitivity pattern in urinary tract infection in febrile under-5s at a children's emergency unit in Nigeria
| Autor: | George O. Akpede, G. Ukoh, A. S. Musa-Aisien, O. M. Ibadin |
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| Rok vydání: | 2003 |
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Staphylococcus aureus medicine.medical_specialty Abdominal pain Fever Urinary system Nigeria Drug resistance Urine urologic and male genital diseases medicine.disease_cause Internal medicine Drug Resistance Bacterial Escherichia coli Prevalence medicine Humans Sex Ratio business.industry Infant Newborn Infant medicine.disease female genital diseases and pregnancy complications Blood Cell Count Surgery Klebsiella pneumoniae Child Preschool Urinary Tract Infections Pediatrics Perinatology and Child Health Ceftriaxone Female Gentamicin Emergencies Klebsiella pneumonia medicine.symptom business medicine.drug |
| Zdroj: | Annals of Tropical Paediatrics. 23:39-45 |
| ISSN: | 1465-3281 0272-4936 |
| DOI: | 10.1179/000349803125002850 |
| Popis: | The prevalence of urinary tract infection (UTI) in 300 consecutively admitted, febrile, preschool children with and without a focus of infection was evaluated to determine the contribution of UTI to febrile illnesses. Uncentrifuged urine was evaluated by culture and microscopy. The prevalence of UTI was 9% and was significantly higher in girls than in boys. It was also significantly higher when urine infection had been clinically suspected than in those with other diagnoses. Temperature >41 degrees C and abdominal pain were significantly associated with UTI. Other features significantly associated with UTI were fever of at least 7 days duration, a peak evaluation temperature >or=38.3 degrees C and a white blood cell count >10/mm(3). Escherichia coli, Klebsiella pneumonia and Staphylococcus aureus were the only organisms isolated and they all showed high in vitro sensitivity to clavulanic acid-potentiated amoxycillin, gentamicin and ceftriaxone but were poorly sensitive to co-trimoxazole. |
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