Researchers found that women with urinary tract infection (UTI), those with noninfectious lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS), and control subjects exhibited similar uropathogen levels when evaluated with quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) testing, as published in Clinical Infectious Diseases. They analyzed urine from 502 women: 104 with recurrent UTI and acute symptoms; 354 with noninfectious LUTS; and 44 asymptomatic controls. The qPCR tests detected bacterial DNA in nearly all participants, including E coli in 97.3%, …
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