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Measurement of Tactile Allodynia in a Murine Model of Bacterial Prostatitis
Published on: January 16, 2013
[Microbial etiology of bacterial chronic prostatitis: systematic review]
R Mendoza-Rodríguez, I Hernández-Chico, B Gutiérrez-Soto
1Prof. José Gutiérrez-Fernández, Laboratorio de Microbiología, Hospital Universitario Virgen de las Nieves, Instituto de Investigación Biosanitaria de Granada, 18014 Granada, Spain. josegf@ugr.es.
Objective:
The importance of Gram-positive microorganisms and atypical bacteria in chronic bacterial prostatitis (CBP) has recently been described. For this reason, this study analyzes the etiology of CBP, as well as the evolution of antibiotic resistance through a systematic review.
Methods:
A systematic review of studies obtained through the MEDLINE (PubMed) database, related to the etiology and antibiotic resistance profile of CBP, published up July 1, 2021.
Results:
The most frequent isolated microorganisms that we have found in publications are Enterococcus faecalis (46.90%), Staphylococcus spp. (22.30%), Escherichia coli (15.09%) and atypical bacteria (6.04%).
Conclusions:
CBP is undergoing and unprecedented change of paradigm. Gram-positive bacteria and atypical bacteria are the main pathogens involved in the aetiology of this entity. This forces us to rethink the therapeutic strategy used, since it is necessary to use antibiotics that assume the etiological change and the profile of antibiotic resistance described.
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