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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Main Authors: Lisa Karstens, Mark Asquith, Sean Davin, Patrick Stauffer, Damien Fair, W Thomas Gregory, James T Rosenbaum, Shannon K McWeeney, Rahel Nardos
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2016-07-01
Series:Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fcimb.2016.00078/full