Indian Journal of Public Health Research & Development
  • Year: 2019
  • Volume: 10
  • Issue: 1

Incidence and Antibiotics Susceptibility Pattern of Coagulase Positive and negative Staphylococci amongst (UTI) children in Children Welfare Hospital/Baghdad/IRAQ

Biology Department, College of Science, Mustansiriyah University>, Iraq

Online published on 21 February, 2019.

Abstract

The staphylococcus species are widely spread human pathogens. It is recognized as a frequent cause for children urinary tract infections (UTI) in, the purpose of this study seeks to detect the incidence of Coagulase positive and negative Staphylococci among IRAQI children with urinary Tract infection (UTI) and their antibiotics susceptibility in a period of one month from the 1st of June to 1st of July 2017.Atotal of 57 positive samples were included in this study. Staphylococcus aureus was one of the most isolated being 10.52% after E.coli 36.84% and Enterobacter 21.05%.There was not any significant difference in infection with staphylococcus species between age and sex.Staphylococcus aureus coagulase positive and negative Staphylococcus (CoNS) showed the highest sensitivity to Nitrofurantaurine, whereas only one Staphylococcus aureus was resistant to Co-trimoxazole.

Keywords

Urinary tract infection, Coagulase positive and negative Staphylococci, antibiotics susceptibility