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Bacterial interference for prevention of urinary tract infection: a prospective, randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blind pilot trial.

Darouiche RO, Thornby JI, Cerra-Stewart C, Donovan WH, Hull RA

Michael E. Debakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Houston, Texas, USA. rdarouiche@aol.com

This prospective, randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blind pilot trial examined the efficacy of bacterial interference in preventing urinary tract infection (UTI) in 27 patients with spinal cord injury. Patients whose bladders became colonized with Escherichia coli 83972 were half as likely (P=.01) than noncolonized patients to develop UTI during the subsequent year.

Published 18 October 2005 in Clin Infect Dis, 41(10): 1531-4.
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