Disgusting Source of the Majority of Urinary Tract Infections

Most people typically attribute UTIs to one of two sources. But studies using DNA matching are now disputing that assumption.

STORY AT-A-GLANCE

• Urinary tract infections (UTIs) affect anywhere from 25% to 60% of women over the course of their lifetime, and hospitalization rates for UTIs in the U.S. rose by 52% between 1998 and 2011 as a result of increasing antimicrobial resistance

• Researchers have found the reason UTIs tend to have such a high recurrence rate in postmenopausal w…