The 2001 Giessen Cohort Study on patients with prostatitis syndrome - An evaluation of inflammatory status and search for microorganisms 10 years after a first analysis

Andrologia

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 258-262

  Schneider, H ^a   Ludwig, M ^a   Hossain, H M ^a   Diemer, T ^a   Weidner, W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL GIESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Infection; Inflammation; Prostatitis syndrome

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CONFERENCE PAPER; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; EVALUATION; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; LEUKOCYTE; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROORGANISM DETECTION; OUTPATIENT; PEROXIDASE POSITIVE LEUKOCYTE; PREVALENCE; PROSTATITIS; STANDARD; UREAPLASMA UREALYTICUM; URETHRITIS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ADULT; AGED; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; COHORT STUDIES; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTATITIS; SEMEN; SYNDROME;

EID: 0242361121     PISSN: 03034569     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1439-0272.2003.00586.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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