Etiological and Resistance Profile of Bacteria Involved in Urinary Tract Infections in Young Children Sorlozano Puerto, Antonio Gómez Luque, José María Luna Del Castillo, Juan De Dios Navarro Mari, José María Gutiérrez Fernández, José The objective of this study was to identify the bacteria most frequently responsible for urinary tract infection (UTI) in the population of under-2-year-olds in our geographic area and to evaluate the activity of antibiotics widely used for UTI treatment during a 4-year study period. Materials and Methods. A retrospective analysis was conducted of data on the identification and susceptibility of microorganisms isolated in urine samples from children under 2 years of age. A total of 1,045 uropathogens were isolated. Escherichia coli accounted for the majority (60.3%) of these, followed by Enterococcus faecalis (22.4%) and Klebsiella spp. (6.5%). The highest E. coli susceptibility rates (>90%) were to piperacillin-tazobactam, cefuroxime, cefotaxime, ceftazidime, imipenem, gentamicin, nitrofurantoin, and fosfomycin, and the lowest were to amoxicillin-clavulanic acid and cotrimoxazole. Among all bacteria isolated, we highlight the overall high activity of piperacillin-tazobactam, imipenem, nitrofurantoin, and fosfomycin against both community and hospital isolates and the reduced activity of amoxicillin-clavulanic acid, cephalosporins, gentamicin, and cotrimoxazole. There was no significant change in the total activity of any of the studied antibiotics over the 4-year study period. Empiric treatment with amoxicillin-clavulanic acid, cotrimoxazole, cephalosporins, and gentamicin may be inadequate due to their limited activity against uropathogens in our setting 2019-12-03T08:32:25Z 2019-12-03T08:32:25Z 2017-04-11 info:eu-repo/semantics/article Sorlózano-Puerto, A., Gómez-Luque, J. M., Luna-del-Castillo, J. D. D., Navarro-Marí, J. M., & Gutiérrez-Fernández, J. (2017). Etiological and resistance profile of bacteria involved in urinary tract infections in young children. BioMed research international, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10481/58148 10.1155/2017/4909452 eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/ info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ Atribución 3.0 España Hindawi