Chronic prostatitis--an infectious disease?
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Is chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome an infectious disease of the prostate?
For over a hundred years chronic prostatitis was consi dered an infectious disease of bacterial origin and when antibiotics became available it was believed that it would probably be relegated to the wastebasket of cured diseases [1]. However, despite this promise, antibiotics did not cure most of the patients with prostatitis and with better understanding of microbiology, uropathogenicity and...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy
سال: 2000
ISSN: 1460-2091
DOI: 10.1093/jac/46.2.157