Comparative antibiotic resistance in urine cultures before and after the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic

Abstract

An epidemiological surveillance study was conducted at Laboratorios Ruiz (member of Synlab México group) in Puebla, Mexico that included the comparison of the antibiotic susceptibility test results of bacteria isolated from urine cultures at two different periods, between 2017 and 2021. There was an increase in the resistance to beta-lactams in E. coli and K. pneumoniae while a decrease in resistance to aminoglycosides in E. faecalis. The COVID-19 pandemic may have contributed to the increased antibiotic resistance trends.

Keywords

• COVID-19
• Antibiotic resistance
• Urinary tract infections