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The chronic prostatitis is the most common infectious disease in the urinary tract in male, it is confusing us to diagnose. It is usually diagnosed by history, urinalysis, rectal palpation, and wet smear of prostatic secration. But sometimes these findings are not identical to the true condition of patients 72 patients suspected of chronic prostatitis were studied by cultures of prostatic secretion and semen. And they compared to each other. The results were as follows. 1. Semen cultures, in 10 cases of control group showed positive findings in one case. It is a Staphylococcus epidermidis, but the colony counts was less than 100. 2. The positive findings on prostatic secretion culture were 53 cases (73.6%) and on semen culture were 45 cases (62.5%). 3. Although there is no evidenece the semen culture is superior to the prostatic secretion culture for diagnosis of chronic prostatitis, it is more useful in the patient who my have on acute exacervation of chronic prostatitis, the patient whose prostatic juice can’t be obtined by masage, and the patient who can’t endure pain because of rectal pathology such as anal fissure or sever hemorrhoid.
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