Prevalence of multidrug-resistant uropathogens isolated from patients with urinary tract infections in a tertiary hospital in Ghana
Michael Nkrumah-Appau, Eric Darko, Daniel Dzemedo Nouwati, Ishmael Tetteh, Alex Owusu-Ofori · 2026
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Michael Nkrumah-Appau checks drug response in germs that cause urine infections at a large teaching hospital in Ghana. In this 2026 study, urine from 357 patients with suspected infection was grown in the lab from 2020 to 2021. Germs that grew were tested against a panel of drugs with a standard disk method. Patient background facts were logged beside the lab work.
True infection was found in 26.6 percent of samples, across ten germ groups. Women were hit far more than men. Two germ types tied as the most common cause. All ten types showed some drug resistance. Response was worst to an old drug, ampicillin, and best to a reserve drug, imipenem. Full resistance maps in the report give local doctors a fresh guide for a very common illness.
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| CREATOR | Michael Nkrumah-Appau, Eric Darko, Daniel Dzemedo Nouwati, Ishmael Tetteh, Alex Owusu-Ofori |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 34952 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |