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Etiology of prostatitis

A total of 1442 patients with symptoms of chronic prostatitis were examined over a 4 year period at the Outpatient Department for Urogenital Infections, University Hospital for Infectious Diseases "Dr. Fran Mihaljević", Zagreb, Croatia. An infectious aetiology was determined in 1070 (74, 21%) patients. In 561 (52, 4%) of 1070 patients the inflammatory finding (>10 WBCs/hpf) was found in EPS or VB3. Normal, <10 WBCs/hpf was found in 362 (67, 54%) of 536 patients with symptoms of chronic prostatitis in whom C. trachomatis was detected in EPS or VB3, in 51 (33, 77%) out of 151 patients with isolated Trichomonas vaginalis and in 40 (55, 56%) out of 72 patients with isolated Ureaplasma urealyticum. Escherichia coli was the causative pathogen in 95, Enterococcus in 68, Proteus mirabilis in 37, Klebsiella pneumoniae in 16, Streptococcus agalactiae in 19, and Pseudomonas aeruginosa in 3 patients with chronic prostatitis. Other patients had a mixed infection. In patients with chronic bacterial prostatitis caused by E. coli, P. mirabilis, Kl. pneumoniae, Enterococcus or Streptococcus agalactiae, an inflammatory finding was regularly found in EPS or VB3.

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