Microbiological profile of urinary tract infections with special reference to antibiotic susceptibility pattern of Escherichia coli isolates

Urinary tract infections, caused by multidrug resistant uropathogenic Escherichia coli (UPEC) are alarmingly escalating. Widespread utilization of empirical antibiotics without performing anti-microbial susceptibility testing led to expanding resistance to different classes of antimicrobial agents generally prescribed among UPEC isolates in our country. Therefore, this study aims to detect the prevalence and the antibiotic susceptibility pattern of UPEC isolates, in Tanta University Hospitals, Egypt. A total of 200 urine samples were collected from July 2015 to August 2016.