Urinary Tract Infections
(asked on 29th January 2020) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the prevalance of antimicrobial resistance to urinary tract infections.
This question was answered on 4th February 2020
As part of the English surveillance programme for antimicrobial utilisation and resistance, Public Health England collects surveillance data on antibiotic resistance in bacteria isolated from urine.
Among all bacterial isolates from urinary tract infection samples, decreases in the proportion resistant were observed for trimethoprim (34.9% to 31.0%), fosfomycin (11.6% to 7.9%), and pivmecillinam (12.1% to 9.9%) between 2015 and 2018.