Immune overreaction may enable recurrent urinary tract infections

Thursday, August 12, 2010 - 16:28 in Health & Medicine

The immune system may help open the door to recurrent urinary tract infections (UTIs) by overdoing its response to an initial infection, report researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. The findings appear August 12 in the open-access journal PLoS Pathogens.

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