Table 3.
Frequency of detection of antibiotic activity in urine of 1,153 patients recruited to prospective study
| Location | No. of urine specimens | No. (%) (95% confidence interval [CI]) patients who stated that they took antibiotic before | No. (%) (95% CI) with any antimicrobial activity in urine | No. (%) (95% CI) urine samples containing antimicrobial activity according to species of target organism | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| E. coli | B. stearothermophilus | S. pyogenes | ||||
| Mahosot Hospital | ||||||
| All patients | 513 | 146498 (29.3) (25.3–33.3) | 174 (33.9) (29.8–38.0) | 61 (11.9) (9.1–14.7) | 116 (22.6) (19.0–26.2) | 127 (24.8) (21.0–28.5) |
| Outpatients | 423 | 106413 (25.7) (21.5–29.9) | 109 (25.8) (21.6–29.9) | 53 (12.5) (9.4–15.7) | 82 (19.4) (15.6–23.2) | 77 (18.2) (14.5–21.9) |
| Adult infectious disease ward | 45 | 2242 (52.4) (37.3–67.5) | 36 (80.0) (68.3–91.7) | 3 (6.7) (0–14.0) | 21 (46.7) (32.1–61.3) | 28 (62.2) (48.1–76.4) |
| Pediatric infectious disease ward | 45 | 1843 (41.9) (27.1–56.6) | 29 (64.4) (50.5–78.4) | 5 (11.1) (1.9–20.3) | 13 (28.9) (15.7–42.1) | 22 (48.9) (34.3–63.5) |
| Setthathirat Hospital | ||||||
| All patients | 640 | 125632 (19.8) (16.7–22.9) | 243 (38.0) (34.2–41.7) | 66 (10.3) (8.0–12.7) | 170 (26.6) (23.1–30.0) | 137 (21.4) (18.2–24.6) |
| Outpatients | 504 | 77 (15.3) (12.1–18.4) | 162 (32.1) (28.1–36.2) | 41 (8.1) (5.7–10.5) | 104 (20.6) (17.1–24.2) | 94 (18.7) (15.3–22.1) |
| Adult ward | 100 | 2992 (31.5) (22.0–41.0) | 54 (54.0) (44.2–63.8) | 19 (19.0) (11.3–26.7) | 43 (43.0) (33.3–52.7) | 27 (27.0) (18.3–35.7) |
| Pediatric ward | 36 | 19 (52.8) (36.5–69.1) | 27 (75.0) (60.9–89.2) | 6 (16.7) (4.5–28.9) | 23 (63.9) (48.2–79.6) | 16 (44.4) (28.2–60.7) |
| All patients | 1153 | 2711,130 (24.0) (21.5–26.5) | 417 (36.2) (33.4–38.9) | 127 (11.0) (9.2–12.8) | 286 (24.8) (22.3–27.3) | 264 (22.9) (20.5–25.3) |
| All adults | 1065 | 2341,045 (22.4) (19.9–24.9) | 357 (33.5) (30.7–36.4) | 115 (10.8) (8.9–12.7) | 248 (23.3) (20.8–25.8) | 224 (21.0) (18.6–23.5) |
| All children | 88 | 3785 (43.5) (33.0–54.1) | 60 (68.2) (58.5–77.9) | 12 (13.6) (6.5–20.8) | 38 (43.2) (32.8–53.5) | 40 (45.5) (35.1–55.9) |
| All outpatients | 927 | 183917 (20.0) (17.4–22.6) | 271 (29.2) (26.3–32.2) | 94 (10.1) (8.2–12.1) | 186 (20.1) (17.5–22.6) | 171 (18.4) (16.0–21.0) |
| All inpatients | 226 | 88213 (41.3) (34.7–48.0) | 146 (64.6) (58.4–70.8) | 33 (14.6) (10.0–19.2) | 100 (44.3) (37.8–50.7) | 93 (41.2) (34.7–47.6) |
Denominators are only shown if there are missing values