Epidemiology of urinary tract infection among spinal cord injured patients in rehabilitation ward at Siriraj Hospital. - Concepedia

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Epidemiology of urinary tract infection among spinal cord injured patients in rehabilitation ward at Siriraj Hospital.

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2013

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Teerada Ploypetch, Piyapat Dajpratham, Susan Assanasen, Thanitta Thanakiatpinyo, Phakamas Tanvijit, Jantra Karawek

Abstract

UTI was commonly observed in SCI patients within the rehabilitation ward The most common uropathogen was Escherichia coli. Therefore, a prophylactic antibiotic such as amikacin should be prescribed in patients with VUR and increased intravesical pressure at storage phase.