Bacterial etiology of urinary tract infections in patients treated at Kenyan health facilities and their resistance towards commonly used antibiotics

Susan Kiiru; John Maina; Japhet Katana; John Mwaniki; Benon B. Asiimwe; Stephen E. Mshana; Katherine Keenan; Stephen H. Gillespie; John Stelling; Matthew T. G. Holden; HATUA Consortium; John Kiiru

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0277279

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Bacterial etiology of urinary tract infections in patients treated at Kenyan health facilities and their resistance towards commonly used antibiotics

Susan Kiiru ,

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft

* E-mail: suzikoah@gmail.com, SKiiru@kemri.go.ke

Affiliation Centre for Microbiology Research, Kenya Medical Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9369-1300

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John Maina,

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Centre for Microbiology Research, Kenya Medical Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya
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Japhet Katana,

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Centre for Microbiology Research, Kenya Medical Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya
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John Mwaniki,

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre for Microbiology Research, Kenya Medical Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya
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Benon B. Asiimwe ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Benon B. Asiimwe, Stephen E. Mshana, John Kiiru

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision

Affiliation School of Biomedical Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda
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Stephen E. Mshana ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Benon B. Asiimwe, Stephen E. Mshana, John Kiiru

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Supervision

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Catholic University of Health and Allied Sciences, Mwanza, Tanzania
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Katherine Keenan,

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Geography and Sustainable Development, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, Fife, United Kingdom
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Stephen H. Gillespie,

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Medicine, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, United Kingdom
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John Stelling,

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Matthew T. G. Holden,

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Medicine, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, United Kingdom
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HATUA Consortium ,

¶Membership of HATUA consortium is provided in the Acknowledgments.
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John Kiiru

Contributed equally to this work with: Benon B. Asiimwe, Stephen E. Mshana, John Kiiru

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Centre for Microbiology Research, Kenya Medical Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya, National Public Health Laboratories, Ministry of Health, Nairobi, Kenya
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Bacterial etiology of urinary tract infections in patients treated at Kenyan health facilities and their resistance towards commonly used antibiotics

Susan Kiiru,
John Maina,
Japhet Katana,
John Mwaniki,
Benon B. Asiimwe,
Stephen E. Mshana,
Katherine Keenan,
Stephen H. Gillespie,
John Stelling,
Matthew T. G. Holden

Published: May 26, 2023
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0277279

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