The pope cited Donna Haraway y'all
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Fascinating study looking at how certain types of E. coli train the lining of the bladder to become more vulnerable to future infections. This may in part explain why some people have bladder colonization or UTI and then continue to get more bacteruria subsequently.
Uropathogenic Escherichia coli infection induces epigenetic remodelling and trained immune responses in bladder epithelial stem cells that affect susceptibility to recurrent infection.