Genotyping demonstrates that the strains of Proteus mirabilis from bladder stones and catheter encrustations of patients undergoing long-term bladder catheterization are identical.

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PURPOSE: We established the incidence of bladder stones in patients who experienced recurrent encrustation and blockage of indwelling bladder catheters and examined the relationship between isolates of Proteus mirabilis from the stones and from the crystalline biofilms on the catheters. MATERIALS...

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