Research Article

Changing Trends in Prevalence and Antibiotics Resistance of Uropathogens in Patients Attending the Gondar University Hospital, Northwest Ethiopia

Table 1

Frequency of positive urine cultures for bacteria by age and sex in UTI suspected patients attending Gondar University Hospital, Northwest Ethiopia, 2012.

Variable Frequency of positive isolates (%) value

Sex45.80.007
 Male117 (41.2)
 Female167 (58.8)
 Total284  (100.0)
Age group in years2.10.32
 <5 29 (10.2)
 5–913 (4.6)
 10–1419 (6.7)
 15–1911 (3.9)
 20–2980 (28.2)
 30–3940 (14.0)
 40–4929 (10.2)
 50+63 (22.2)
Total 284  (100.0)

: chi-square test.