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Urinary Tract Infections

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Humans have a huge number of microorganisms in the intestine and on the body surface. Most of the time, we live in friendly commensalism with them, but sometimes infections break out. This can be due to own microorganisms crossing physiological barriers as in honeymoon cystitis or the intrusion of foreign microorganisms as in venereal diseases.

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  1. Department of Urology, Santa Chiara Regional Hospital, Trento, Italy

    Tommaso Cai MD

  2. Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway

    Truls E. Bjerklund Johansen MD, Dr. Med. Sci.

  3. Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark

    Truls E. Bjerklund Johansen MD, Dr. Med. Sci.

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  1. Nijmegen, The Netherlands

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  2. Urology Research Department, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Tr, Sheffield, United Kingdom

    Christopher Chapple

  3. University Hospitals KU Leuven, Edegem, Belgium

    Dirk De Ridder

  4. Sohag University Hospital, Sohag, Egypt

    Fawzy Farag

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Cai, T., Johansen, T.E.B. (2016). Urinary Tract Infections. In: Heesakkers, J., Chapple, C., De Ridder, D., Farag, F. (eds) Practical Functional Urology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25430-2_8

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