1113. Outpatient Antimicrobial Stewardship: Targets for Urinary Tract Infections

Antimicrobial Stewardship and Urinary Tract Infections.

Urinary tract infections are the most common bacterial infections encountered in ambulatory and long-term care settings in the United States. Urine samples are the largest single category of specimens received by most microbiology laboratories and many such cultures are collected from patients who have no or questionable urinary symptoms. Unfortunately, antimicrobials are often prescribed inapp...

Antimicrobial treatment for urinary tract infections

The aims of treatment One of the aims of treatment of urinary tract infection is to relieve distressing symptoms as quickly as possible. Another is to prevent recurrent infections in those children who experience frequently recurring symptomatic urinary tract infection. A third objective is to prevent infections in children who are deemed to be at greatest risk of developing reflux nephropathy ...

Antimicrobial treatment for urinary tract infections.

The aims of treatment One of the aims of treatment of urinary tract infection is to relieve distressing symptoms as quickly as possible. Another is to prevent recurrent infections in those children who experience frequently recurring symptomatic urinary tract infection. A third objective is to prevent infections in children who are deemed to be at greatest risk of developing reflux nephropathy ...

Antimicrobial Stewardship Among Hospitalized Patients with Influenza Respiratory Tract Infections

Antimicrobial resistance patterns in outpatient urinary tract infections--the constant need to revise prescribing habits.

BACKGROUND There is a global emergence of resistance against commonly prescribed antibiotics. Empirical antibiotic prescribing should be guided by local antimicrobial susceptibility patterns. AIM To dentify organisms and determine antibiotic susceptibility in urinary tract infections (UTIs) at 3 Military Hospital, Bloemfontein. METHODS All urine samples collected during 2008 were analysed. ...