Extended Spectrum Beta-Lactamase Producing Enterobacteriaceae: Hospital-Acquired Urinary Tract Infections, Khartoum

Abstract

Background: The family Enterobacteriaceae are the most common causative agent of urinary tract infection (UTI) pathogen among both hospital and community patients. Antibiotic resistance among uropathogens has become a major public health problem that due to easy resistant spread and transfer resistant gene within gram negative bacteria, also might led to limitations of treatment options. This study was aimed to determine the prevalence of Extended Spectrum ß-Lactamase (ESBL)-producing Enterobacteriaceae isolates from urine samples in patients admitted in Academy Charity Teaching Hospital (ACTH) by phenotypic detection, Khartoum State, Sudan.