Value of semen culture in the diagnosis of chronic bacterial prostatitis: A simplified method

Scandinavian Journal of Urology and Nephrology

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 326-331

  Budía, Alberto ^a,b   Palmero, José Luis ^a   Broseta, Enric ^a   Tejadillos, Susana ^a   Benedicto, Antonio ^a   Queipo, José A ^a   Gobernado, Miguel ^a   Cruz, J Fernando Jiménez ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO LA FE   (Spain)

^b NONE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Chronic bacterial prostatitis; Semen

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CHRONIC BACTERIAL PROSTATITIS; CHRONIC PROSTATITIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DYSURIA; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; MASSAGE; MICTURITION; NONHUMAN; PELVIS PAIN SYNDROME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE SECRETION; SEMEN CULTURE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; URINE CULTURE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTATE; PROSTATITIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEMEN;

EID: 33747605982     PISSN: 00365599     EISSN: 16512065     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00365590600748247     Document Type: Article

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