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Progress Made Toward Vaccine for Urinary Infections
Tests on mice show success against E. coli, a common cause. A vaccine to prevent urinary tract infections shows early promise in tests on mice, according to University of Michigan researchers.
For two decades, researchers have been trying to develop a vaccine to prevent urinary tract infections, which afflict about 53 percent of women and 14 percent of men at least once in their lives, according to background information in a university news release.
The researchers screened more than 5,000 bacterial proteins and identified three strong candidates to use in a vaccine to fight Escherichia coli, the cause of most uncomplicated urinary tract infections.
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