Cryptic bacterial infection in chronic prostatitis: Diagnostic and therapeutic implications

Current Opinion in Urology

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 45-49

  Domingue Sr , Gerald J ^a  

^a TULANE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ACTINOMYCETALES; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CHRONIC PROSTATITIS; COAGULASE NEGATIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE SECRETION; SHORT SURVEY;

EID: 15444352068     PISSN: 09630643     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00042307-199801000-00009     Document Type: Short Survey

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