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The most frequent species isolated from urine samples were E. coli (64.5%), Klebsiella spp. (11.6%), and Enterococcus spp. (6.1%). UTIs caused by Enterobacter spp., Enterococcus spp., and Klebsiella spp. were significantly more common in children younger than three months of age than in children older than three months (p &lt; 0.001). Trimethoprim and trimethoprim\u2013sulfamethoxazole were the least active compounds against Enterobacterales with the resistance of E. coli, Klebsiella spp., P. mirabilis, and Enterobacter spp. in the range of 26.7\/25.2%, 48.4\/40.4%, 51.1\/40.4%, and 15.8\/13.2% respectively. Ampicillin was also found to have resistance rates for E. coli of 54.9% and P. mirabilis of 44.7%. Cefalexin and cefuroxime were highly active towards Enterobacterales except for Klebsiella spp., in which the resistance level reached 40%. Regarding third- and fourth- generation cephalosporins, resistance in E. coli and P. mirabilis was observed in approximately 2\u201310% of the isolates, but in Klebsiella spp. and Enterobacter spp. ranged over 30%. The resistance of Enterobacterales to carbapenems, nitrofurantoin, and fosfomycin was below 1%. The quinolones resistance was very high for Klebsiella spp. (31.1%) and P. mirabilis (29.8%) and three times lower for E. coli (11.9%), P. aeruginosa (9.3%), Enterobacter spp. (2.6%), and E. faecalis (4.6%). Resistance to multiple antibiotic classes was identified in 396 Enterobacterales strains, 394 of which were multi-drug resistant (MDR) and 2 were extensive drug-resistant (XDR). In the case of E. coli, 30% of isolates were MDR, with the proportion of strains having this exact resistance pattern similar in all of the analyzed years; no E. coli XDR strains were isolated. The number of Klebsiella spp. MDR strains was much higher in 2022 (60%) than in 2021 (47.5%). In the analyzed time, only one strain of K. pneumonia XDR, producing New Delhi metallo-\u03b2-lactamase, was isolated. 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