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What Does E.coli Count In The Urine Report Suggest?
My mother Mrs. Krishna Devi is 63 years old her urine culture and sensitivity test reports as under : Organism isolated ; Escherichia Coli Colony Count : 100000 cfu/ml further it shows sensitivity for : Escherichia coli with sensitive remarks in front of all the followings terms Antimicrobial Cepaholosporins cefuroxime ceftriaxone cefotaxime ceftazidime cefepime Beta lactam/beta lactamase inhibitor piperacillin- tazobactam cefoperazone sulbactam Fluoroquinolones ciprofloxacin levofloxacin ofloxacin Aminoglycosides gentamicin tobramycin amikacin IMIPENEM netilimicin Carbapenems meropenem Tetracyclines tetracycline tigecycline Miscellaneous nitrofurantoin colistin aztreonam colistin aztreonam norfloxacin amoxyclav cotrimoxazole cefixime kindly suggest what kind of treatment could be given to her as she hardly digest allopathy medicines and takes only homeopathy medicines for all kind of illness for the last 25 years. now homeopaty doctor also suggest to consult allopath ( specialist urologist) regards.. anil kumar
Fri, 24 Oct 2014
Hello and welcome to HCM,
The urine analysis reports suggests presence of urinary tract infection (UTI).
The infectious bacteria is found to be E coli.
The drug sensitivity is done to select the antibiotics effective against the particular strain of bacteria.
Thus, one of the antibiotics listed in the drug sensitivity list has to be selected.
One of the antibiotic will have to be taken since the infection will not resolve till antibiotic is used.
Thanks and take care
Dr Shailja P Wahal
The urine analysis reports suggests presence of urinary tract infection (UTI).
The infectious bacteria is found to be E coli.
The drug sensitivity is done to select the antibiotics effective against the particular strain of bacteria.
Thus, one of the antibiotics listed in the drug sensitivity list has to be selected.
One of the antibiotic will have to be taken since the infection will not resolve till antibiotic is used.
Thanks and take care
Dr Shailja P Wahal
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