Barbara Trautner
Barbara Trautner, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston
When patients with spinal cord injury rely on urinary catheters for bladder drainage, this may lead to one or more urinary tract infections, or UTIs. As an alternative to drugs, delegates at ICAAC heard about a rather more novel technique for dealing with this problem: bacterial interference: using benign bacteria to out-compete the pathogens.
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