{"id":243394,"date":"2026-08-30T09:10:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T14:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/candida-on-urinary-catheters-can-be-more-than-contamination-patient-samples-suggest"},"modified":"2026-08-30T09:10:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T14:10:14","slug":"candida-on-urinary-catheters-can-be-more-than-contamination-patient-samples-suggest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/candida-on-urinary-catheters-can-be-more-than-contamination-patient-samples-suggest","title":{"rendered":"Candida on urinary catheters can be more than contamination, patient samples suggest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/candida-on-urinary-catheters-can-be-more-than-contamination-patient-samples-suggest.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Relying on a urinary catheter is a standard part of medical care for hundreds of thousands of patients each year. Unfortunately, the device carries the risk of catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs), for which bacteria are widely recognized as the primary cause. And yet, many patients face a growing threat from another pathogen: a fungus, Candida albicans.<\/p>\n<p>Research published in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pnas.org\/doi\/10.1073\/pnas.2533309123\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences<\/i><\/a> by University of Notre Dame associate professors of biological sciences Ana Flores-Mireles and Felipe Santiago-Tirado shows how the fungus works in the bladder, potentially changing the way doctors treat and diagnose CAUTIs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Relying on a urinary catheter is a standard part of medical care for hundreds of thousands of patients each year. Unfortunately, the device carries the risk of catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs), for which bacteria are widely recognized as the primary cause. And yet, many patients face a growing threat from another pathogen: a fungus, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}