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

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 …

Purpose: We examined the urethral microbiota, determined if it differs from the bladder
urinary microbiota, and assessed if its composition differs based on patient demographic …

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 …

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

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 …

Background Since the discovery of the bladder microbiome (urobiome), interest has grown
in learning whether urobiome characteristics have a role in clinical phenotyping and provide …

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 …

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

Objectives The bladder is not sterile but contains a healthy community of microbes termed
the microbiome. Alterations in the bladder microbiome have been demonstrated in disease …