What do we know about the urinary tract infection-prone individual?

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 183, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2001, Pages

  Schaeffer, A J ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONFERENCE PAPER; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; GENETIC RISK; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INFECTION RISK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; RECURRENCE; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS; URINE; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 0035283054     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/318837     Document Type: Conference Paper

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3. Neutrophil recruitment and resistance to urinary tract infection
4. IL-8 and the neutrophil response to mucosal gram-negative infection
5. Genetic factors in host resistance to urinary tract infection
6. Role of type 1 pili and the effects of phase variation on lower urinary tract infections produced by Escherichia coli
7. Role of vaginal colonization in urinary tract infections (UTIs)
8. Roles of glycoproteins and oligosaccharides found in human vaginal fluid in bacterial adherence
9. Association of the Lewis blood-group phenotype with recurrent urinary tract infections in women
10. Binding of uropathogenic Escherichia coli R45 to glycolipids extracted from vaginal epithelial cells is dependent on the histo-blood group secretor status