P. mirabilis is exquisitely committed to survival within the host urinary tract, as this species has the greatest number of distinct fimbrial types of any sequenced organism, possesses the ability to ...

Bacteria have a basic survival strategy: to colonize surfaces and grow as biofilm communities embedded in a gel-like polysaccharide matrix. The catheterized urinary tract provides ideal conditions for ...

Scientists now have inside information to use in the fight against Proteus mirabilis -- a nasty bacterium that can cause kidney stones, as well as hard-to-treat urinary tract infections. Scientists ...

ORLANDO, Fla. – Scientists now have inside information to use in the fight against Proteus mirabilis – a nasty bacterium that can cause kidney stones, as well as hard-to-treat urinary tract infections ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Urea is a small molecule formed as proteins ...