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Conditions
Brief summary
This study is aimed at collating and analysing data of paediatric urinary tract infections, identifying antibiotic resistance patterns in different groups of children by age, gender, presence of renal tract abnormalities. It will also assessed the level of bacteraemia in younger children. The data will be used to evaluate whether current empiric antibiotics guidelines are adequate and suitable for all groups of patients and whether there is a need for new guidelines for high risk patients and younger patients.
Interventions
Urinary tract infection is a common bacterial infection in the paediatric population. It is an important cause of morbidity and mortality in children under 2 years of age. Increasing antibiotic resistance trends have important clinical implications for the empirical use of antibiotics. It is know that antimicrobial resistance vary according to geographic region. Knowledge of antimicrobial resistance patterns locally may aid clinicians in prescribing accurate empirical antibiotics treatment.
Th
Urinary tract infection is a common bacterial infection in the paediatric population. It is an important cause of morbidity and mortality in children under 2 years of age. Increasing antibiotic resistance trends have important clinical implications for the empirical use of antibiotics. It is know that antimicrobial resistance vary according to geographic region. Knowledge of antimicrobial resistance patterns locally may aid clinicians in prescribing accurate empirical antibiotics treatment. This is a retrospective observational study is to examine antimicrobial resistance patterns in paediatric urinary tract infections in a single centre over the period of 12 months (1st April 2013 to 31st March 2014). Antimicrobial resistance patterns of patients with renal tract abnormalities were compared to those patients with normal renal tracts. All paediatric urine samples from 1st April 2013 to 31st March 2014 were reviewed. These samples were obtained from children who presented to the outpatient or emergency department; or who were admitted as inpatients. Urine samples that were collected by Paedibag (pediatric urine collection bag) and cottonball collection method were excluded. Cultures with mixed growth, and common contaminants were excluded. To prevent duplication, repeat samples within 30 days of first positive urine culture were excluded.
Sponsors
Dr Su Ling Chua
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
No minimum to 18 Years
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
1. Positive urine culture from patients ages 0 -18 years old. 2. Samples collected by suprapubic aspiration, catheterization and non-invasive collection sample (midstream) were include. 3. Only pure growth or predominantly pure growth samples were included. 4. Only the first positive urine sample of the encounter was included in the analysis to eliminate repetition.
Exclusion criteria
1. Positive urine culture within 30 days of the same patient were excluded to avoid repeat. 2. Pedibag (paediatric urinary bag) and cottonball collected samples were excluded. 3. Samples with mixed growth and common contaminants were excluded.
Outcome results
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