**3.1 Community-acquired urosepsis**

Community-acquired urosepsis when presents with urosepsis from the community. It accounts for 7% of all sepsis cases. It is more frequent in females and has a shorter ICU stay. Mainly caused by Gram-negative bacteria and 63% had *E. coli* with 41% having bacteraemia. Yang et al. have shown that ESBL-producing *E. coli* and *K. pneumoniae* (ESBL-EK) accounted for 20.7% of the pathogens causing


#### **Table 1.**

*Differences between community-acquired urosepsis and hospital-acquired urosepsis.*

bacteraemic community-acquired urinary tract infections [10]. The 28-day mortality was higher in the non-HCRI group (29%) [11].
