Urinary Tract Infection

Genetic "switch" may enable bacteria to survive stressful conditions

Published in Health and Medicine Week, December 6th, 2004

The bacterium Escherichia coli is responsible for about 80% of human urinary tract infections. Scientists at the University of California, Santa Barbara, have made important strides in understanding E. coli at the molecular level in an effort to discover the mechanisms by which E. coli causes urinary tract infections.

The findings, the result of 2 years of study, were published in the November 19, 2004, issue of the journal Molecular Cell. The first author is Aaron D. Hernday.

In this study, the scientists focused on the mechanisms by which these bacteria, which normally live in the bowel, adhere to and colonize the...

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Source: Health and Medicine Week (2004-12-06)

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