A new approach to treating recurrent urinary tract infections

She came to me with a manila folder stuffed with urine culture reports. 14 of them, spanning three years. Every one showed a different organism, or the same organism with a longer and longer list of resistances. Her most recent culture, the one that finally prompted her primary care physician to refer her to urology, showed an Escherichia coli (E. coli) resistant to 15 antibiotics. 15. She had been treated …

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A new approach to treating recurrent urinary tract infections