Does the urinary microbiome play a role in urgency urinary incontinence and its severity?
Objectives: Traditionally, the urinary tract has been thought to be sterile in the absence of a clinically identifiable infection. However, recent evidence suggests that the urinary tract harbors a variety of bacterial species, known collectively as the urinary microbiome, even when clinical culture...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2016-07-01
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Series: | Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology |
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Online Access: | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fcimb.2016.00078/full |