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Coating Urinary Catheters with an Avirulent Strain ofEscherichia colias a Means to Establish Asymptomatic Colonization

Year: 2007

Type: article

Abstract: We investigated whether insertion of urinary catheters that had been coated with Escherichia coli HU2117 could establish bladder colonization with this nonvirulent organism. Ten of 12 subjects were successfully colonized for 14 days or more. The rate of symptomatic UTI during colonization was 0.15 per 100 patient-days.

Source: Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

DOI: 10.1086/510872

Authors: Barbara W. Trautner, Richard A. Hull, John I. Thornby, Rabih O. Darouiche

Institutions: Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center, Baylor College of Medicine

Language: English

Topic: Urinary Tract Infections Management

Subfield: Epidemiology

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: green

Funder: Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development