Prevalência de infecção do trato urinário em pacientes atendidos em uma unidade de terapia intensiva na cidade de Goiânia-GO

Abstract

The objective of this study was to analyze the prevalence of urinary tract infection and the resistance and susceptibility profile of microrganisms found in the urine of men and women treated at an Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at a hospital in Goiânia-GO, in the period from November 2016 to October 2017. Urinary tract infections are one of the most frequent bacterial infections in adult individuals of any age group, which involves both the lower and upper urinary tract or both. Such pathology is more prevalent in women than in men. The most common microrganisms in women was Escherichia coli, detected in about 52.3% of uncomplicated acute bacterial infections, and in 25% of men Klebsiella pneumoniae. This is a descriptive, objective, systematic and quantitative study using the results of uroculture and antibiogram reports of men and women attending ICU in a hospital in Goiânia-GO. Of the 377 urocultures analyzed, 292 presented negative results and 85 positive ones. In male patients, 122 urocultures were negative and 20 positive; while in women, 170 of the results were negative and 65 were positive.