Antibiotic Susceptibility Profiles of Escherichia coli from Urinary Bacteruria of Asymptomatic Students of University of Ibadan

Abstract

Asymptomatic bacteruria is the presence of significant count bacteria capable of inducing urinary tract infection in the urine tract of clinically healthy individuals. Four hundred samples of urine were investigated for the presence of Escherichia coli in this study, out of which forty by conventional biochemical tests. The percentage prevalence gender ratio of the isolates was 77.5% females to 22.5% males while the age distribution prevalent ranged between 24 years 30years. Ten conventional biochemical confirmatory tests was carried out on the isolates. The antibiogram in this study elicited the effective potency of floroquinolones while ampicillin, a β –lactams derivatives was recorded to be less effective. Sixteen isolates showed multidrug resistant to 4 antibiotics while 2 isolates elicited multidrug resistance to 6 antibiotics in this study. The findings of this study the prevalence and the potency of selected antibiotics could be useful in the therapeutic management of asymptomatic bacteruria in the study region.