Skip to main content

Table 1 Patients' socio-clinical parameters, stratified by confirmed UTI cases within each grouping

From: Epidemiology of community origin of major multidrug-resistant ESKAPE uropathogens in a paediatric population in South-East Gabon

Characteristics

Total number

(n = 508)

UTIs

(n = 304)

Percentage (%)

p-value

Pediatric population

 Neonates and infants

293

229

78.2

 < 0.0001

 Early childhood

99

37

37.4

 

 Late childhood

59

14

23.7

 

 Adolescents

57

24

42.1

 

Sex

 Male

289

168

58.1

NS

 Female

219

136

62.1

 

Residence

 Urban

397

247

62.2

0.05

 Rural

111

57

51.4

 

Symptoms

 Urinary signs

215

98

45.6

 

  Voiding burns

68

39

57.3

 

  Pollakiuria

40

21

52.5

 

  Abdomino-pelvic pain

57

18

31.6

NS

  Hematuria

8

3

37.5

 

  Low back pain

33

13

39.4

 

  Incontinence

9

4

44.4

 

 Non-urinary signs

293

206

70.3

 

  Fever

220

134

60.9

 

  Others

73

72

98.6

 < 0.0001

History of antibiotic therapy

 Probabilistic ATB

215

111

51.6

0.001

 Non- Probabilistic ATB

293

193

65.9

 
  1. P values were calculated using a Chi-squared test in R software, version 4.0.2
  2. NS not significant