Complicated Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections Due to Escherichia coli and Proteus mirabilis

Complicated Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections Due to Escherichia coli and Proteus mirabilis
S. M. Jacobsen, D. J. Stickler, H. L. T. Mobley, and M. E. Shirtliff

Clinical Microbiology Reviews, January 2008, p. 26-59, Vol. 21, No. 1

Pathogenesis of biofilm formation on urinary catheters during CAUTIs. The inset (reprinted from reference 393) shows a scanning electron micrograph of a urinary catheter encrusted with P. aeruginosa.