Enrichment of semen culture in the diagnosis of bacterial prostatitis
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Marco De Sio; Francesca Martora; Davide Arcaniolo; Chiara Del Vecchio; Maria Rosaria Iovene; Mariateresa Vitiello; Chiara Pagliuca; Enza Mallardo; Giuseppe Signoriello
- Source
- Journal of Microbiological Methods. 154:124-126
- Subject
- Male
0301 basic medicine
Microbiology (medical)
medicine.medical_specialty
Semen culture
030106 microbiology
030232 urology & nephrology
Urology
Prostatitis
Diagnostic accuracy
Semen
Urine
Sensitivity and Specificity
Microbiology
Specimen Handling
Prostatiti
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Culture Techniques
Humans
Medicine
Molecular Biology
Bacteriological Techniques
BHI enrichment
Bacteria
business.industry
Prostate
Bacterial Infections
Gold standard (test)
medicine.disease
Culture Media
Clinical Practice
Biofilms
business
Bacterial prostatitis
- Language
- ISSN
- 0167-7012
The objective was to investigate the diagnostic accuracy of our microbiological protocol to simplify the evaluation of bacterial prostatitis in the clinical practice. Our findings show the possibility to apply our alternative enrichment semen culture method to detect prostatic bacterial infection with higher sensitivity than the gold standard M&S technique. The objective was to investigate the diagnostic accuracy of our microbiological protocol to simplify the evaluation of bacterial prostatitis in the clinical practice. Our findings show the possibility to apply our alternative enrichment semen culture method to detect prostatic bacterial infection with higher sensitivity than the gold standard M&S technique.