Urethral dysbacteriosis as an underlying, primary cause of chronic prostatitis: Potential implications for probiotic therapy

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 73, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 741-743

  Liu, Longfei ^a   Yang, Jinrui ^a   Lu, Fanggen ^a  

^a CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; PROBIOTIC AGENT;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL FLORA; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CHRONIC PROSTATITIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG RESPONSE; DRUG SAFETY; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE BIOPSY; RISK FACTOR; SYMPTOM; URETHRITIS; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

CHRONIC DISEASE; HUMANS; MALE; PROBIOTICS; PROSTATITIS; URETHRA;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 70349745411     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2009.04.035     Document Type: Article

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