Emerging evidence challenges the long-held paradigm that the healthy bladder is sterile.
These discoveries may provide new opportunities to address important women's health
conditions, which include preterm labor and delivery, urinary tract infections, and common
forms of urinary incontinence. Traditional tools for urinary bacterial assessment, which
includes urinary dipsticks and standard urine cultures, have significant limitations that restrict
the information that is available to clinicians. For example, the standard urine culture does …