Antimicrobial Susceptibility Pattern of Escherichia coli from Patients with Urinary Tract Infections in a Tertiary Care Hospital

Urinary tract infection (UTI) is one of the most common bacterial infections in humans affecting all age groups and both genders in the community and hospital (Tekin et al., 2012) after respiratory tract infection (Tekin et al., 2012; Sobel, 2000). UTIs occur in both men and women, clinical studies suggest that the overall prevalence of UTI is higher in women. Uncomplicated UTIs in healthy women have an incidence of 50/1000/year (De Backer et al., 2008). An estimated 50% of women experience at least one episode of UTI at some point in their lifetime and between 20% and 40% of women have recurrent episodes. 20% of all UTIs occur in men (Rock et al., 2007; Vasquez and Hand, 2004; Pearle et al., 2007).