Prevalence of Klebsiella pneumoniae among Complicated and Uncomplicated Urinary Tract Infection in Najaf, Iraq

This research carried to investigate the prevalence of cUTI among UTI Iraqi patients and K. pneumoniae as its causative bacterial agent. A cross section study involved 116 UTI patients where cUTIand uncomplicated UTI patient. All urine specimens cultured on blood agar base and MacConkey agar Vitek 2 compact system used for identification and detection of antibiotic resistance using GNID and AST card.According to urologist diagnosis, out of 116 UTI patients only14 (12.06%) patients were reported as cUTI, out of them, 5(35.71%) patients were female and 9(64.28%) patients were male. Culturing results showed that only 45 urine specimens gave +ve culture on MacConkey agar where 13 isolates primary identified as K. pneumonia. Out of them only 7(53.84%) isolates were confirmed as K. pneumoniae. All isolates (100%) were resistance to ampicillin whereas all these isolates (100%) showed sensitivity to each of piperacillin/tazobactam, cefoxitin, cefepime, ertapenem, meropenem, amikacin, gentamicin and trimethoprim/ sulfamethoxazole.