Bacterial adherence in the pathogenesis of urinary tract infection: a review.

Authors

G. Reid, Lawson Health Research Institute

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

9-1-2011

Journal

Beneficial Microbes

Volume

2

Issue

3

First Page

177

Last Page

181

URL with Digital Object Identifier

10.3920/BM2011.0026

Abstract

In times when human life and quality of life remain threatened by infectious diseases, increasing microbial resistance and a diminished armamentarium of treatments, you might think that the European Commission would urgently seek and encourage alternative approaches. On the contrary, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has created a panel that has ignored good science, over-ridden peer-reviewed medical studies, and seems intent on breaking the back of a validated approach to infectious disease management, namely probiotics. The recent rejection of a simple and quite bland claim related to vaginal health emphasises the travesty of this bureaucracy. Herein, the science fights back and counters the critique of EFSA. © 2011 Wageningen Academic Publishers.