Could faecal testing be the key to treating recurrent UTIs?
Five-year Aussie study of patient points to possible way forward
15th August 2019
Future UTI treatments could involve faecal testing to create a tailored treatment plan based on intestinal flora, say University of Queensland researchers after studying one patient’s recurrent infections.
Over five years, they tested urine samples from a 74-year-old US woman with a 45-year history of recurrent UTIs treated with a variety of antibiotics.
Using gene sequencing, they found that all of the samples contained an identical Escherichia coli clone, with some variants resistant to multiple antibiotics.