Prostatitis GERALD

INTRODUCTION .......................................................................................................................................................604 Definition of a Problem..........................................................................................................................................604 Acute and Chronic Bacterial Prostatitis .............................................................................................................605 SPECIMEN COLLECTION AND BACTERIOLOGIC CULTURE ....................................................................605 COMMON BACTERIAL ETIOLOGIC AGENTS..................................................................................................605 CHRONIC IDIOPATHIC PROSTATITIS ..............................................................................................................606 Prokaryotic DNA Sequences in Patients .............................................................................................................606 Bacterial Cultures for Commensal and Fastidious Bacteria............................................................................606 Difficult-to-Culture Coryneforms in Expressed Prostatic Secretions ..............................................................607 Chlamydia trachomatis.............................................................................................................................................608 Ureaplasma urealyticum...........................................................................................................................................608 OTHER, LESS COMMON TYPES OF PROSTATITIS .......................................................................................609 Mycobacterial Infection..........................................................................................................................................609 Gonococcal Prostatitis............................................................................................................................................609 Parasitic Prostatitis ................................................................................................................................................609 Fungal Prostatitis ...................................................................................................................................................609 Abscesses of the Prostate Gland...........................................................................................................................609 Viral Prostatitis.......................................................................................................................................................610 PROSTATITIS IN BENIGN PROSTATIC HYPERPLASIA.................................................................................610 UROVIRULENCE DETERMINANTS OF BACTERIA CAUSING PROSTATITIS..........................................610 ANTIBIOTIC PHARMACOKINETICS IN PROSTATITIS..................................................................................610 IS NONBACTERIAL PROSTATITIS CAUSED BY A CHEMICAL INFLAMMATORY REACTION IN THE PROSTATE? ........................................................................................................................................610 IS CHRONIC IDIOPATHIC PROSTATITIS AN AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE? ................................................611 CONCLUSIONS AND REMAINING PROBLEMS...............................................................................................611 REFERENCES ............................................................................................................................................................611