Antibiotic resistance pattern in Enterobacteriaceae

Urinary tract infection is a pathology that is always in the news. Indeed due to its frequency and its complications an adequate treatment is necessary. This treatment is becoming more and more delicate because over the years we have observed an emergence of bacterial resistance (particularly in enterobacteria) to antibiotics which has become a major public health problem on a worldwide scale putting the validity of the therapeutic arsenal at stake. Given the importance of this phenomenon we conducted a study at the Ad Lucem Hospital of Bonamoussadi (located in Douala Cameroon) on the resistance profile of enterobacteria isolated from urinary tract infections to commonly used antibiotics. The study showed that the increase in antibiotic resistance among Enterobacteriaceae is far from negligible which justifies regular review and harmonization of empirical treatments for urinary tract infections.