DOI: 10.36347/sjams.2022.v10i12.069

Pages: 2491-2495

Background: Urinary tract infections (UTIs) encompass a wide array of infections, accounting for a vast number of community as well as hospital-acquired infections. Aim of the Study: The aim was to analyse the clinical presentation of UTI in children and Adolescents between 6 year to 18 years of age and to analyse the causative microorganism and their drug susceptibility in urinary tract infection in children and Adolescents of the above age group. Methods: This retrospective was conducted at the Department of Pediatrics in Bangladesh Shishu Hospital, Dhaka, Bangladesh. A total of 51 patients were enrolled and analyzed in this study based on culture-positive urine isolates. The study duration was September 2021 to August 2022. The ethical committee of the institution approved the study protocol. Antimicrobial susceptibility was done for positive urine culture by the Kirby-Bauer disk diffusion method. Statistical analysis was done using Statistical package for social sciences (SPSS) software version 16. Result: This is a retrospective study; 98 children were enrolled and analyzed. The majority of the study population was aged 6-10 years (62.75%), 11(21.57%) patients were from the age group 11-15 years, and 8(15.69%) patients were from the age group 16-18 years. Conclusion: The most common clinical presentations of UTI in admitted patients are fever, dysuria and abdominal pain. Gram-negative bacilli were found to be responsible for UTI, and the most frequently isolated bacteria were E-coli.