title: [Urinary tract infection and antibiotic sensitivity in the south of Albacete, Spain].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Describing the bacteriological map of the urinary tract infections (UTI) in our area including intra and extrahospitalized patients during 1997.
  
  
  METHODS
  Descriptive-retrospective study, 12,937 urocultives were carried out in our laboratory: 847 from hospitalized patients and 12,090 from 15 Health Centres.
  
  
  RESULTS
  1,527 positive cultures (12.6%) were obteined from Health Centre patients and 215 (25.3%) from hospitalized patients. Bacterial distribution was similar between them, except enterocci and negative coagulase estafilococci which were more frequent in hospitalized patients. We have observed a high prevalence of Enterobacter sp. (4%) and Pseudomonas sp. (4%) which disagrees with other studies. E.coli (presents in 69% of the positive urocultives) was widespread resistant to quinolones, pipemidic acid and nitrofuration, while it had high sensitivity to fosfomicin, cephuroxim and amoxicilin-clavulanic acid.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The level of resistance to the quinolones is considerable in our area, so clinicians should give them up in empirical treatment and use fosfomicine, cephuroxime or amoxicilin-clavulanic acid.
authors.affiliation: Servicio de Análisis Clínicos, Hospital de Hellín, Albacete.
authors.forename: M P
authors.initials: MP
authors.lastname: Atienza Morales
authors.forename: F J
authors.initials: FJ
authors.lastname: Castellote Varona
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Romero Portilla
mesh_terms: D001424:Bacterial Infections / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000382:microbiology; D004352:Drug Resistance, Microbial; D006801:Humans; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D013030:Spain; D014552:Urinary Tract Infections / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000382:microbiology
vernacular_title: Infección urinaria y sensibilidad antibiótica en el sur de la provincia de Albacete.