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Toll‐like Receptor Signaling and Chemokine Receptor Expression Influence the Severity of Urinary Tract Infection
1 Mar 2001
Abstract excerpt
Urinary tract infections (UTIs) vary in pathogenesis and severity. After their ascent into the urinary tract, bacteria may establish asymptomatic bacteriuria (ABU), cause acute cystitis, or cause acute pyelonephritis. Research during the last few decades has established that the site of infection and the disease severity are influenced by bacterial virulence. In the 1940s, hemolysin was shown to identify...
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