Women's bladder is not a sterile place and can contain both beneficial and deadly bacteria

In a breakthrough, US researchers found that women's bladder is not a sterile place and may contain beneficial and deadly bacteria, a finding that could lead to better diagnostic tests for urinary tract infections ( UTI).

demystified the common belief that urine in healthy women is sterile and has shown that this bacterium is "shared" between the bladder and the vagina and the microbiota includes pathogens such as E. coli and S. anginosus and beneficial bacteria such as L.iners and L.crispatus

Beneficial bacteria that reside in both the bladder and vagina may provide protection against urinary tract infections. "Now that we know that the bladder is not sterile, we need to reevaluate everything we thought we knew – the bladder, and that's what we do," said Alan J. Wolfe, a microbiologist at Loyola University of Chicago.

This idea "should change the way we view female pelvic floor bacteria both by allowing new research and by providing new diagnostic and treatment options for urinary tract infections, incontinence urinary urgency and other associated urinary tract disorders, "noted the researchers.'49 bacterial strains from nearly 100 women

Although the microbiota (community of microorganisms) found in the bladder and vagina were similar, they were distinctly distinct from the microbiota found in the gastrointestinal tract.

bladder and vagina, effectively creating a microbiota niche.

Urination provides an obvious way for bacteria to travel from the bladder to the vagina.

But it's a mystery how bacteria can travel from the vagina to the bladder, especially since most bacteria ex Aminoe in the study lack characteristics such as flagella (whip-shaped structures) or pili (grapples) "Source: IANS"

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Added: June 30, 2018 6:17 pm | Updated June 30, 2018 at 18h18