[A study of IgA.IgG titers for C. trachomatis in serum and prostatic secretion of chronic prostatitis]

In order to study the correlation between chronic prostatitis and C. trachomatis, IgA and IgG titers for C. trachomatis in serum and prostatic secretion were measured using the indirect immunoperoxidase assay (Ipazyme Chlamydia). 1) Positive rate of IgA and IgG titers in serum and prostatic secretion was higher in cases of chronic prostatitis than that in cases of suspected chronic prostatitis or the normal male group. 2) In cases of chronic prostatitis, IgA titers showed a tendency to be high in prostatic secretion, and IgG titers showed the same tendency in serum. This result was considered C. trachomatis infection was appeared local immunization in prostate. 3) After treatments with DOXY for cases of positive IgA titers in prostatic secretion, IgA titers of those cases were decreased and inflammations of prostate were cured. 4) The positive rate of IgA and IgG titers in serum was higher in wives with IgA positive cases than in those with the IgA negative. Those results suggested that chronic prostatitis was correlated by C. trachomatis.