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Group B strep, Streptococcus agalactiae, is the most common strep that causes UTIs: I’ve only seen one case of Streptococcus pyogenes (Group A strep, which causes strep throat. Use the same treatment for that one as for GBS, but definitely use grated horseradish).
GBS is the most persistent gram positive bacteria, typically low grade and not particularly virulent, but it’s like that one guy who won’t go away no matter how hard you friend-zone him.

Like entero, it’s gram positive, non-motile (can’t swim around like most of the gram negative pathogens can) and your first step is going to be acidifying your urine pH. Gram positive bacteria thrive in an alkaline environment, which is why they don’t cause the kind of bladder pain something like E. coli does: they don’t naturally thrive in the bladder, where the pH is usually around 5.

Now, based on the cases I’ve seen, the main reason this has been hard to treat in the past is…you’ve probably already guessed it….low stomach acid. Streptococcus is highly susceptible to organosulphurs, especially in garlic, *light bulb moment ahead*…..

This is the most common gram positive bacteria causing UTIs. It and the other bacteria ending in “coccus” (staph and strep) are less painful and virulent in the bladder due to two factors:

1. They aren’t motile, i.e., the little effers can’t swim to your kidneys, and
2. Their growth is inhibited by an acid pH, and anyone on a typical Western diet has a urine pH around 5-6, which is acidic enough to keep the bacteria somewhat in check.

#1 means you don’t have to worry about a runaway infection getting to your kidneys, and #2 means you’re not going to be in the kind of raging pain typically associated with a UTI. At most, you generally feel some irritation and have frequency, but you’re not doubled over.

Proteus mirabilis is an interesting bug, named after an ancient Greek god of the sea for its ability to change its shape and swarm rapidly over moist surfaces. Ominous, no?
It’s a member of the same (infamous crime) family as E. coli: gram negative, motile, naturally resistant to penicillin and fluorquinolone-based antibiotics, highly likely to form a biofilm when it spreads in a medical setting, generally through catheters, but almost every case I’ve seen has been in someone who hadn’t been catheterized.
All of them, however, had low stomach acid. Treating that is vital to both killing a current Proteus infection, and preventing new ones.