Abstract

The term urinary tract infection (UTI) refers to the presence of majority microbial pathogens in the urinary tract producing signs and symptoms of a disease. The diagnosis of bacterial UTI is usually performed by bacteriological methods of isolation and identification of bacterial strains in voided urine. In Yemen, and specially in Aden, there is a lack of information not only about the pattern of used antibiotics in the treatment of UTI but also the prescribing behavior of these drugs This is a retrospective study performed by collecting data from 12 selected urology outpatient clinics in Aden city and analyzed by using the excel program .According to the obtained results most pathogen of the UTi was E-coli (79%) and the most used method for the identification of UTI were the routine test (66%) while only 24% were by culture method. Most prescriptions contained single antibiotic (83%) and the most prescribed antibiotics were Fluoroquinolones, Cephalosporins and others.