World Bank assisted National Agricultural Research Project (NARP) - University of Port Harcourt
Abstract
The prevalence and sensitivity pattern of urinary pathogens from 1240
patients in Port-harcourt, Nigeria was investigated. The predominant
pathogens cultured was E. coli which accounted for 76.6% of the
infections. Klebsiella spp was responsible for 8.1% of cases while
the rest were accounted for by Proteus spp(4.8%), coagulase-negative
staphylococci (3.2%), Pseudomonas Pseudomonas spp(2.4%), Enterobacter
spp. (2.4%), Staphylococcus aureus (1.6%) and Citrobacter
species(0.8%). The majority of the isolates were resistant to
tetracycline (75.8%), ampicillin (71.0%) and cotrimoxazole (65.3%) but
exhibited good sensitivity to nitrofurantoin (88.7%), gentamicin
(85.5%) and nalidixic acid (76.6%). It is recommended that a periodic
reassessment of the sensitivity pattern of urinary pathogens be carried
out to serve as a guide for antibiotic therapy of UTIs in a particular
environment since these organisms exhibited resistance to first-line
drugs used for UTI infections