STUDYING THE EFFECT OF GINGER & SOME ANTIBIOTICS AGAINST SOME BACTERIA ISOLATED FROM UTI

Rana Salah Al-Zubaidi*, Noor Jasim M. and Safa M. Mohammed

ABSTRACT

Urinary tract infections have become the most common hospital- acquired infection, accounting for as many as 35% of nosocomial infections. Millions people worldwide were diagnosed and treated as urinary tract infections each year and women tend to get infections more than men because the urethra is shorter and closer to the anus [Stamm & Norrby, 2001]. In addition, menopause become the risk of increasing urinary tract infection [Foxman, 2002]. UTIs are mostly caused by Gram positive, Gram negative bacteria and Candida species that typically multiply at the opening of the urethra and folding up to the bladder. On the other hand bacteria much less often spread to the kidney from the blood stream [Ronald, 2002]. Recurrent signs and symptoms of the infection need to repeat the treatment and misuse the antibiotics clinically lead to an increasing in multi-drug resistance bacteria which also causing the spread of bacterial resistant strains, resulting in very high rates of morbidity rather than cost-effective related with its treatment [Arjunan et al., 2010]. Untreated infections may be risen to the upper urinary tract and produce fever, chills, increase burning pain on urination, and side pain. The entry of bacteria into the blood stream is associated with severe morbidity, including sepsis and death [Mignini et al., 2009]. The early treatment the decreasing UTI rate of morbidity. So an appropriate therapy depending on the main bacteria that involved in the urinary tract infection as well as their corresponding antimicrobial resistance pattern. This way lets controlling the increase of antibiotics resistance and the spread of resistant bacterial strains that characterize as a public health problem worldwide [Neto et al., 2003].

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