ReviewAnnals of translational medicine2017
The female urinary microbiota, urinary health and common urinary disorders.
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- CleanSeqU algorithm for decontamination of catheterized urine 16S rRNA sequencing data.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Exploring Childhood Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms (LUTS), Urinary Tract Infections (UTIs) and the Microbiome-A Systematic Review.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Urinary microbiomes in postmenopausal women with or without urinary symptoms of the genitourinary syndrome of menopause: a cross-sectional study.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- How is the human microbiome linked to kidney stones?Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2025Review
- Pathogen distribution and risk factors of positive stone culture for patients with upper urinary tract stone.American journal of translational research · 2025Article
- Comparison of the urinary microbiome in men who have sex with men with and without Chlamydia trachomatis infection.European journal of clinical microbiology & infectious diseases : official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology · 2024Article
- Cataloging the phylogenetic diversity of human bladder bacterial isolates.Genome biology · 2024Article
- Urinary microbiome community types associated with urinary incontinence severity in women.American journal of obstetrics and gynecology · 2024Article
- A Bird's-Eye View of the Pathophysiologic Role of the Human Urobiota in Health and Disease: Can We Modulate It?Pathophysiology : the official journal of the International Society for Pathophysiology · 2024Review
- The Urinary Microbiome in Health and Disease: Relevance for Bladder Cancer.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024Review
- Urinary microbiota and serum metabolite analysis in patients with diabetic kidney disease.Heliyon · 2023Article
- Competitive Inoculation as an Effective Prophylaxis Against Recurrent Urinary Tract Infections: A Systematic Review.International neurourology journal · 2023Article
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Abstract
This review provides the clinical context and updated information regarding the female urinary microbiota (FUM), a resident microbial community within the female bladder of many adult women. Microbial communities have variability and distinct characteristics in health, as well as during community disruption (dysbiosis). Information concerning characteristics of the FUM in health and disease is emerging. Sufficient data confirms that the microbes that compose the FUM are not contaminants and are cultivatable under appropriate conditions. Common clinical conditions, including urinary tract infection (UTI) and urgency urinary incontinence (UUI), a common form of urinary incontinence (UI), may be usefully reconsidered to determine the role of the FUM. Knowledge of FUM characteristics may help advance prevention, diagnosis and treatment of these conditions and other common lower urinary disorders in women. The FUM appears related to UTI and UUI in adult women. The specific role of the FUM remains to be clarified and requires significant additional work in describing FUM variability and resilience in health. Unique aspects of the FUM prompt re-evaluation of existing nomenclature to more appropriately define health and disease; the concept of dysbiosis may be useful for understanding the interaction of the FUM with other aspects of lower urinary tract physiology, including urothelial signaling. Clinicians, through their clinical laboratories, can adopt enhanced urine culture techniques that more fully describe the living microbes within the FUM. This additional information may provide clinicians and their patients an opportunity to impact clinical care without antibiotic use, if the FUM can be appropriately modified to improve treatment precision for UTI and UUI.
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