The bacterial microbiota of Hunner lesion interstitial cystitis/bladder pain syndrome.

J Curtis NickelGarth D EhrlichJaroslaw E KrolAzad AhmedBhaswati SenArchana BhatJoshua C MellR Christopher DoironKerri-Lynn KellyJoshua P Earl

Published in: BJU international (2021)

We were not able to identify a unique pathogenic urinary microbiota that differentiates all HL from all non-HL IC/BPS. It is likely that the male-specific differences resulted from colonization/contamination remote from the bladder. We were not able to show that bacteria play an important role in patients with HL IC/BPS.

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