Testing the ciprofloxacin and erythromycin antibiotics potency against E. coli bacteria isolated from pregnant women with urinary tract infections

Khetam Ibrahim Almhanna, College of science, IRAQFollow

Document Type

Original Study

Abstract

The current study included collecting data on pregnant women who suffer from urinary tract infections by 70 patients from the Women's and Children's Teaching Hospital in the city of Al-Diwaniyah The distribution of the severity of the injury for the studied cases was divided into four severity cases (mild +, moderate ++, severe +++, and very severe ++++). The most cases admitted to the hospital were from the severity ( +), and the least was(++++). As for the frequency of urinary tract infections in women before pregnancy, the results showed that 22 (31.43 %) of the investigated cases had urinary tract infections before pregnancy, while 48 (68.57%) of the cases were not . Women whose ages ranged between 17-25 were the largest number compared to the rest of the cases, so the percentage 52.85 of recording the severity of urinary tract infection As for the least recorded cases they were for ages between 35-44. There are 44 cases that did not suffer from symptoms, and about 20 cases of them suffer from urinary tract infection from the severity mild ( +), while only 3 cases of them suffer from urinary tract infection from the severity (+++) This might be because there weren't many samples taken from pregnant women who were infected in the later stages of their pregnancies. This might be because there weren't many samples taken from pregnant women who were infected in the later stages of their pregnancies.After culturing the specimens , the following results were obtained on Escherichia coli bacteria , E.coli appeared as pinkcolored colonies on MacConkey Agar, and under a microscope, Gram-negative bacilli or red bacilli were visible.,and it appeared in a bright green color on the center of the EMB agar.When conducting a sensitivity test using two antibiotics (erythromycin and ciprofloxacin), the isolates were highly resistant to erythromycin. As for their sensitivity to ciprofloxacin, it was very sensitive to this antibiotic.

Keywords

Urinary tract infection during pregnancy, E.coli, erythromycin, ciprofloxacin, Sensitivity test

Recommended Citation

Almhanna, Khetam Ibrahim (2024) "Testing the ciprofloxacin and erythromycin antibiotics potency against E. coli bacteria isolated from pregnant women with urinary tract infections," Al-Qadisiyah Journal of Pure Science: Vol. 29 : No. 1 , Article 10.
Available at: https://doi.org/10.29350/2411-3514.1236