Enrichment of semen culture in the diagnosis of bacterial prostatitis.
- Resource Type
- Article
- Authors
- Iovene, Maria Rosaria; Martora, Francesca; Mallardo, Enza; De Sio, Marco; Arcaniolo, Davide; Del Vecchio, Chiara; Pagliuca, Chiara; Signoriello, Giuseppe; Vitiello, Mariateresa
- Source
- Journal of Microbiological Methods. Nov2018, Vol. 154, p124-126. 3p.
- Subject
- *PROSTATITIS diagnosis
*SEMEN
*BACTERIAL cultures
*ANTIBIOTICS
*GENITOURINARY diseases
- Language
- ISSN
- 0167-7012
Abstract 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. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]