Prevalence of Multidrug Resistant UTI Among People Living with HIV in Northern Tanzania.
Bartholomeo Nicholaus NgowiBruno SunguyaAyesiga M HermanAlfred ChachaEusebious MaroLeonard France RugarabamuJohn BartlettEmmanuel BalandyaKien Alfred MtetaBlandina Theophil MmbagaPublished in: Infection and drug resistance (2021)
One in eight of PLHIV attending CTC at KCMC referral hospital in Northern zone of Tanzania have BUTI. Presence of nitrites in urine is an important biomarker associated with BUTI. About two third of the isolates were Gram-positive bacteria, and nearly half of all isolates showed MDR to commonly used antibiotics.