HowEscherichia coliInfects the Urinary Tract

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Abstract
Urinary tract infections are a common cause of morbidity, especially among otherwise healthy women of childbearing age. Antibiotic therapy will cure the infection in approximately 80 percent of such women; additional episodes occur in the rest. Most recurrent infections are not due to inadequate treatment of the original infection. Instead, they are new infections with different bacterial strains, which occur in women without demonstrable structural or neurologic abnormalities of the urinary tract. Such women are considered to be "infection-prone." In 80 to 90 percent of such cases a single bacterial species, Escherichia coli, is the responsible pathogen.Prospective studies . . .