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SUBMITTER: Brubaker L
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4128900 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Brubaker Linda L Nager Charles W CW Richter Holly E HE Visco Anthony A Nygaard Ingrid I Barber Matthew D MD Schaffer Joseph J Meikle Susan S Wallace Dennis D Shibata Noriko N Wolfe Alan J AJ
International urogynecology journal 20140211 9
<h4>Introduction and hypothesis</h4>This study's aims were to detect and quantify bacterial DNA in the urine of randomized trial participants about to undergo treatment for urinary urgency incontinence (UUI) without clinical evidence of urinary tract infection (UTI) and to determine if the presence of bacterial DNA in baseline urine relates to either baseline urinary symptoms or UTI risk after urinary tract instrumentation.<h4>Methods</h4>Women without clinical evidence of baseline UTI were rand ...[more]