Older adults, recently hospitalised patients and those who used antibiotics in the last few months are more likely to get hard-to-treat urinary tract infections (UTIs), according to a new medical Bahrain-based study.
The ‘Urinary Tract Infections Among Patients in Primary Healthcare Centres in Bahrain’ cross-sectional study looked at nearly 2,000 people with confirmed UTIs who visited government health centres across the country in 2022, also finding that more than one in five of those infections were caused by bacteria that became resistant to regular antibiotics .