Incidencia de escherichia coli y klebsiella spp en el tracto urinario como agente causal de infecciones urinarias en pacientes geriátricos

Abstract

Urinary tract infections is one of the health problems that most affects the population, in most cases to the elderly people due to factors such as: socieconomic level, the misuse of antibiotics or suspension of therapeutic treatment, generating bacterial resistance and resulting in this aggravated and tends to use broad-spectrum antibitics1,2. An important factor that has been forgotten by health personnel along whith the ministry is the correct use of the antibiogram, because it is prescribed, but whitout proper follow-up and control of the patient, being guided more by the symptomatology tan by the causal agent, making the patient more vulnerable and dificult to recover3,4.