Anyone who has had a urinary tract infection knows how painful they can be. Some infections go away on their own, but many require antibiotics.
Beneath the surface of this very common infection lie many mysteries, unanswered questions and unnecessary suffering. And this gets to the heart of the challenge of tackling antimicrobial resistance.
Madeleine Finlay talks to Dr Jennifer Rohn, Head of the Center for Urological Biology at University College London, about what we now understand about how UTIs take hold, and the complexities surrounding their treatment
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