The Role of Bacteria in Urology
This useful book addresses the pathogenic, therapeutic and preventative roles of bacteria in urology. The authors look at the basic mechanisms of bacterial pathogenesis that lead to disease, as well as the non-pathogenic mechanisms that contribute to the
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The Role of Bacteria in Urology
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The Role of Bacteria in Urology
Dirk Lange • Ben Chew Editors
The Role of Bacteria in Urology
Editors Dirk Lange Basic Science Research The Stone Centre at Vancouver General Hospital Vancouver British Columbia Canada
Ben Chew Clinical Research The Stone Center at Vancouver General Hospital Vancouver British Columbia Canada
ISBN 978-3-319-17731-1 ISBN 978-3-319-17732-8 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-17732-8
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Contents
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Bacteria in the Genitourinary Tract: The Microbiota and Probiotics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Gregor Reid
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Overview of Urinary Tract Infections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Joey Lo, Way Ho Choi, Justin Y.H. Chan, and Dirk Lange
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Pathogenic Mechanisms of Uropathogens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Ryan Chanyi, Jeremy P. Burton, and Peter A. Cadieux
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Urosepsis-Pathogenesis and Treatment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Samir Bidnur and Ryan K. Flannigan
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Struvite Stone Formation by Ureolytic Biofilm Infections . . . . . . . . . . 41 Logan N. Schultz, James Connolly, Ellen Lauchnor, Trace A. Hobbs, and Robin Gerlach
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The Management of Infection Stones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Manoj Monga and Sarah Tarplin
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The Use of Probiotic Bacteria to Treat Recurrent Calcium Oxalate Kidney Stone Disease . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 Brian R. Kullin, Sharon J. Reid, and Valerie R. Abratt
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Role of Oxalobacter formigenes Colonization in Calcium Oxalate Kidney Stone Disease . . . . . . . . .
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