TY - JOUR
T1 - Chronic prostatitis
T2 - Comments on infectious etiologies and antimicrobial treatment
AU - Greenberg, Richard N.
AU - Reilly, Patrick M.
AU - Luppen, Kevin L.
AU - Piercy, Steven
PY - 1985
Y1 - 1985
N2 - Twenty‐three males with the clinical diagnosis of chronic prostatitis were evaluated for a bacterial etiology by the Stamey and Meares method. In addition, 16 patients, regardless of culture results, were placed on either cefadroxil or oral carbenicillin antimicrobial therapy. Culture results identified only four (17%) of 23 patients with bacterial prostatitis: coagulase‐negative Staphylococcus (2), Enterobocter agglomerons (1), and Haemophilus parainfluenzae, and coagulase‐negative Staphylococcus (1). Four of seven patients who received oral carbenicillin and three of nine patients who received cefadroxil reported symptomatic relief. This study did not identify a common etiology for chronic prostatitis or a consistently effective antimicrobial treatment. Rather, we observed that the etiologic agent in most cases of chronic prostatitis (83%) could not be identified by routine bacteriologic culture. Future research efforts in chronic prostatitis must address not only treatment regimens but expand the search for etiologic agents.
AB - Twenty‐three males with the clinical diagnosis of chronic prostatitis were evaluated for a bacterial etiology by the Stamey and Meares method. In addition, 16 patients, regardless of culture results, were placed on either cefadroxil or oral carbenicillin antimicrobial therapy. Culture results identified only four (17%) of 23 patients with bacterial prostatitis: coagulase‐negative Staphylococcus (2), Enterobocter agglomerons (1), and Haemophilus parainfluenzae, and coagulase‐negative Staphylococcus (1). Four of seven patients who received oral carbenicillin and three of nine patients who received cefadroxil reported symptomatic relief. This study did not identify a common etiology for chronic prostatitis or a consistently effective antimicrobial treatment. Rather, we observed that the etiologic agent in most cases of chronic prostatitis (83%) could not be identified by routine bacteriologic culture. Future research efforts in chronic prostatitis must address not only treatment regimens but expand the search for etiologic agents.
KW - antimicrobial treatment
KW - chronic prostatis
KW - infectious etiologies
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U2 - 10.1002/pros.2990060413
DO - 10.1002/pros.2990060413
M3 - Article
C2 - 4088955
AN - SCOPUS:0021834091
SN - 0270-4137
VL - 6
SP - 445
EP - 448
JO - The Prostate
JF - The Prostate
IS - 4
ER -