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 ...

Scientists now have inside information to use in the fight against Proteus ... produced by P. mirabilis, which breaks down urea in the urinary tract, reduces the acidity of urine and leads to ...

The laboratory work, published in the Journal of Clinical Pathology, looked at two common bacteria that can cause urine and bladder infections - E. coli and Proteus mirabilis. Bacteria can form a ...

mirabilis strains were included in the study. The examined strains were isolated from urine (10; 23.8%), wound swabs (19; 45.2%), bedsore swabs (7; 16.7%) and purulence (6; 14.3%) samples derived ...