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 …

Bacterial DNA and live bacteria have been detected in human urine in the absence of
clinical infection, challenging the prevailing dogma that urine is normally sterile. Urgency …

Urinary incontinence (UI) is a burdensome condition with high prevalence in middle-aged to
older women and an unclear etiology. Advances in our understanding of host-microbe …

Objective The purpose of this study was to characterize the urinary microbiota in women
who are planning treatment for urgency urinary incontinence and to describe clinical …

Introduction and hypothesis Many adult women have resident urinary bacteria (urinary
microbiome/microbiota). In adult women affected by urinary urgency incontinence (UUI), the …

Introduction & hypothesis Previous studies have suggested that women with urinary
incontinence have an altered urinary microbiome. We hypothesized that the microbiome in …

Background Female urinary microbiota are associated with urgency urinary incontinence
and response to medication. The urinary microbiota of women with stress urinary …

Context The dogma of a sterile urinary tract persisted for over a century. With the advances
in new high-throughput sequencing technologies and modified culture protocols for …

Abstract Purpose of Review The article discusses (1) techniques used to study bacterial
urinary microbiota;(2) existence of non-bacterial urinary microbiota;(3) associations between …

Purpose Compared to the microbiome of other body sites, the urinary microbiome remains
poorly understood. Although noninvasive voided urine specimens are convenient …