Table 2.
Distribution of common uropathogens isolated from the urine samples of patients with urinary tract infections analyzed at MDS Lancet Laboratories, Ghana, from 2017 to 2021 based on age and region.
| Gram-Negative Bacteria (GNB) | Gram-Positive Bacteria (GPC) | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| E. coli | Klebsiella spp. | Proteus spp. | Pseudomonas spp. | Acinetobacter spp. | Other GNB | |||||||||
| n (%) 1 | n (%) 1 | n (%) 1 | n (%) 1 | n (%) 1 | n (%) 1 | n (%) 2 | ||||||||
| Age groups in years | ||||||||||||||
| <15 | 997 | (6.8) | 272 | (8.7) | 104 | (9.3) | 5 | (5.0) | 9 | (18.8) | 143 | (9.9) | 26 | (8.8) |
| 15–44 | 5887 | (40.1) | 1141 | (36.7) | 374 | (33.4) | 15 | (15.0) | 17 | (35.4) | 501 | (34.8) | 137 | (46.4) |
| 45–64 | 3329 | (22.7) | 735 | (23.6) | 237 | (21.2) | 21 | (21.0) | 4 | (8.3) | 309 | (21.5) | 64 | (21.7) |
| ≥65 | 4341 | (29.5) | 942 | (30.3) | 395 | (35.3) | 59 | (59.0) | 18 | (37.5) | 472 | (32.8) | 65 | (22.0) |
| Regions | ||||||||||||||
| Accra | 9437 | (64.2) | 1921 | (61.7) | 723 | (64.6) | 65 | (65.0) | 27 | (56.3) | 824 | (57.2) | 186 | (63.1) |
| Ashanti | 3080 | (21.0) | 659 | (21.2) | 280 | (25.0) | 18 | (18.0) | 6 | (12.5) | 348 | (24.2) | 77 | (26.1) |
| Others | 2178 | (14.8) | 532 | (17.1) | 117 | (10.4) | 17 | (17.0) | 15 | (31.3) | 268 | (18.6) | 32 | (10.8) |
| Total | 14695 | (100) | 3112 | (100) | 1120 | (100) | 100 | (100) | 48 | (100) | 1440 | (100) | 295 | (100) |
1 Percentages reported out of all culture-positive samples with gram-negative bacilli (GNB) isolates reported for each category; 2 Percentages reported out of all culture-positive samples with gram-positive cocci (GPC) isolates reported for each category.