Urinary tract microbiota: new taxons
- Authors: Valyshev A.V.1, Kuzmin M.D.1
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Affiliations:
- Institute for Cellular and Intracellular Symbiosis of the Orenburg Federal Research Center of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
- Issue: No 4 (2025)
- Pages: 75-79
- Section: Literature reviews
- URL: https://journals.rcsi.science/1728-2985/article/view/316551
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.18565/urology.2025.4.75-79
- ID: 316551
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Abstract
The review is devoted to the assessment of the biological diversity of the human urinary tract microflora. The search was performed using the PubMed, List of Prokaryotic Names with Standing in Nomenclature databases. Data on the species of aerobic, facultative anaerobic and obligate anaerobic bacteria described after 2000 were analyzed. It was found that the introduction of improved diagnostic protocols and methodological techniques led to the detection of new species of microorganisms in urine belonging to 14 families (Enterobacteriaceae, Pseudomonadaceae, Weeksellaceae, Flavobacteriaceae, Chromobacteriaceae, Paenibacillaceae, Lysobacteraceae, Bifidobacteriaceae, Actinomycetaceae, Lactobacillaceae, Corynebacteriaceae, Caryophanaceae, Dietziaceae, and Aerococcaceae). Information on the clinical significance and antibiotic resistance of these bacteria is presented.
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Alexander V. Valyshev
Institute for Cellular and Intracellular Symbiosis of the Orenburg Federal Research Center of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Email: valyshevav@mail.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-1819-3969
Cand. Sc. (Med.), Associate Professor, Leading Researcher at the Laboratory of Microbial Ecology and Dysbioses
Russian Federation, 11, Pionerskaya St., Orenburg, 460000Mikhail D. Kuzmin
Institute for Cellular and Intracellular Symbiosis of the Orenburg Federal Research Center of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Author for correspondence.
Email: mdk-49@mail.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-6349-6053
Dr. Sc. (Med.), Leading Researcher at the Laboratory for Studying the Mechanisms of Formation of Human Microbial Biocenoses, Urologist of the Highest Qualification Category, Honored Doctor of the Russian Federation and the Republic of Mordovia
Russian Federation, 11, Pionerskaya St., Orenburg, 460000References
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