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Open Access
01-12-2014 | Poster presentation
Resist antibiotic use before resistance spreads
Authors:
Kiruthigha Kaliyamoorthy, Nithya Ganesan, Aditya Maddali, Tausif Thangalvadi, Parivalavan Rajavelu
Published in:
International Journal of Emergency Medicine
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Special Issue 1/2014
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Excerpt
Urinary tract infection (UTI) is one of the common complaints with which patients present to the emergency department. There are very few studies from our part of the country for UTI. The most commonly used antibiotics are fluoroquinolones, nitrofurantoin and aminoglycosides. The objective of this study was to evaluate the characteristics of bacteria involved in UTI and the prevalent antibiotic resistance patterns. …