Evaluation of Chromogenic Agar Media for Isolation, Identification and Direct Antibiotic Susceptibility Testing of Uropathogens

Urinary tract infections (UTIs) are one of the most commonly occurring infections in outpatient settings and hospital admissions globally. No single medium is capable of supporting the growth and identification of all uropathogens. Recently, in order to improve isolation and presumptive identification in urine samples, chromogenic agar media are being used more and more frequently as versatile primary culture tools. Direct susceptibility testing by disc diffusion on clinical samples offers a rap