Urinary tract infections in children from the Gulf Cooperation Council countries: a literature review (2011-2022)

May Albarrak; Mona Al Dabbagh; Hilal Al Hashami; Omar Alzomor; Ghassan Ghatasheh; Nervana Habashy; Ashraf Hassanien; Andrés Pérez-López

doi:10.3389/fped.2023.1163103

Urinary tract infections in children from the Gulf Cooperation Council countries: a literature review (2011-2022)

Front Pediatr. 2023 Jul 17:11:1163103. doi: 10.3389/fped.2023.1163103. eCollection 2023.

Authors

May Albarrak¹, Mona Al Dabbagh², Hilal Al Hashami³, Omar Alzomor⁴, Ghassan Ghatasheh⁵, Nervana Habashy⁶, Ashraf Hassanien⁷, Andrés Pérez-López^{8

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Affiliations

¹ Pediatric Infectious Diseases Department, Prince Sultan Military Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
² Department of Pediatrics, Division of Infectious Diseases, King Abdulaziz Medical City, King Abdullah International Medical Research Center, King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
³ Pediatric Infectious Diseases Department, Lean Healthcare Certification, Royal Hospital, Muscat, Oman.
⁴ Pediatric Infectious Diseases Department, King Saud Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
⁵ Department of Pediatrics, Tawam Hospital, Al Ain, United Arab Emirates.
⁶ Pfizer, Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
⁷ Pfizer, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
⁸ Division of Microbiology, Sidra Medicine, Doha, Qatar.
⁹ Weill Cornell Medicine in Qatar, Doha, Qatar.

Abstract

Urinary tract infections (UTIs) are common healthcare-associated and community-acquired bacterial infections in children. Data on pediatric UTIs in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region (Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates) have not been collated. Our aim is to review the published literature on the risk factors, etiology, antimicrobial susceptibility, and treatment of pediatric (aged <18 years) UTIs from healthcare and community settings in the GCC countries.

Keywords: Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC); antimicrobial resistance; antimicrobial susceptibility; pediatric; urinary tract infection.

Publication types

Review

Grants and funding

This work is funded by Pfizer. Medical writing support was provided by Neera Hobson, Wendy Hartley, and Wendy Wilkinson of Micron Research Ltd. (Ely, UK), and was funded by Pfizer.