Urinary tract infection associated with enterobacteria in women treated at the Lupita Clinical Laboratory in Jipijapa

Abstract

Urinary tract infections associated with enterobacteria are one of the most prevalent infectious diseases today, with Escherichia coli being the most common cause in women. Therefore, the objective of this study was to determine the demographic characteristics associated with urinary tract infections caused by enterobacteria in women treated at the Lupita Clinical Laboratory, to establish the frequency of the main enterobacteria in urinary tract infections in women treated in the study population, and to describe the antimicrobial susceptibility of enterobacteria in urinary tract infections in the study population. The methodology used was a qualitative, observational, non-experimental, descriptive, retrospective, and analytical-transversal study, whose results, based on a sample of 1,158 patients, show that all of them have urinary tract infections, with the highest percentage being patients aged 20 to 29 years, predominantly Escherichia coli showing greater resistance to antibiotics such as cefuroxime, fosfomycin, and ciprofloxacin. It was concluded that urinary tract infections associated with enterobacteria have different prevalence rates depending on gender and age, with women being the most affected, in which Escherichia coli is identified as the main bacterium causing urinary tract infections, due to little or inadequate treatment and resistance to antibiotics, becoming a growing and relevant challenge, especially for public health.