Marked sex differences and frequent carriage of recognized uropathogens in the human urogenital microbiome: urine profiles from a population-level shotgun metagenomics study

Background: The urinary tract was long considered sterile.

Background: The urinary tract was long considered sterile. The discovery of the urinary microbiome has attracted interest in its role in urinary health and disease. Population-level urinary microbiome composition remains poorly defined and previous studies relied on selected…