Clinico-Laboratory Profile and Drug Sensitivity Pattern in Urinary Tract Infection of Children in a Tertiary Care Hospital

Background: Urinary tract infection (UTI) is common in children. About 7% girls and 2% of boys suffer from symptomatic, culture positive UTI by 6 years of age. These children present with poor feeding, irritability, vomiting, fever, abdominal pain or failure to thrive. Now a days antibiotic resistance is a global problem which hampers appropriate treatment of urinary tract infection in children. This study was done to see clinical profile, common pathogens and their drug sensitivity pattern in UTI