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Enterococci are one of the important causes of urinary tract infections and are inherently resistant to many antimicrobials, including penicillin, clindamycin, trimethoprimsulfamethoxazole and low levels of aminoglycosides. Moreover, they are poorly responsive to cephalosporins in vivo. The study was carried out in “Cantacuzino” National Research Institute on samples received from community. In order to detect resistance in Enterococcus species, a total of 102 Enterococcus species samples were included in the study. Although Enterococcus faecalis (98.03%) was one of the most common species associated with urinary tract infections, we also identified Enterococcus faecium (1.97%), showing the necessity of species level identification in laboratory settings. There were also isolated enterococci from mixture of two or three bacteria. E. faecalis was sensitive to vancomycin (94.10%), ampicillin (50.98%), penicillin (50.98%), linezolid (97.06%), nitrofurantoin (96.07%), levofloxacin (62.74%), ciprofloxacin (62.74%), chloramphenicol (89.22%) and tetracycline (17.65%), and resistant to gentamycin - high level resistance (25%). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the literature, there are few publications which present data related to the infections of the urinary tract infections (UTI) of the patients who suffer from HiV/AIDS, although they represent an important cause which causes the death of these patients. The prevalence of the etiological agents differs according to the studied area. The urological complications in the case of HIV/ AIDS patients are often the result of a bacterial, parasitic, viral or fungal infections. The antiretroviral therapy increases the life span but, at the same time, it represents a favourable factor for infections, for exam pie, through the urolithiasis which they can produce. We set ourselves to review aspects related to UTI at this group of patients, having as a future objective the evaluation of this correlation in Romania. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]