E. coli bacteraemia and antimicrobial resistance following antimicrobial prescribing for urinary tract infection in the community

  30 October 2022

Urinary tract infections are one of the most common infections in primary and secondary care, with the majority of antimicrobial therapy initiated empirically before culture results are available. In some cases, however, over 40% of the bacteria that cause UTIs are resistant to some of the antimicrobials used, yet we do not know how the patient outcome is affected in terms of relapse, treatment failure, progression to more serious illness (bacteraemia) requiring hospitalization, and ultimately death. This study analyzed the current patterns of antimicrobial use for UTI in the community in Scotland, and factors for poor outcomes.

Increasing age, increasing co-morbidity, lower socioeconomic status, and prior community antibiotic exposure were significantly associated with a resistant E. coli bacteraemia, which leads to increased mortality.

Further reading: BMC Infectious Diseases
Author(s): C McCowan, A Bakhshi, A McConnachie, W Malcolm, Barry SJE, Virginia Hernandez Santiago & A Leanord
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