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Nature Medicine 13, 531 - 532 (2007)
doi:10.1038/nm0507-531

Flushing bacteria out of the bladder

Danelle S Eto1 & Matthew A Mulvey1

  1. The authors are in the Division of Cell Biology and Immunology, Pathology Department, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112, USA. e-mail: mulvey@path.utah.edu


A drug that elevates host cAMP levels forces pathogenic bacteria out of bladder epithelial cells. This process may make urinary tract infections more amenable to treatment with antibiotics (pages 625–630).

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