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Abacterial cystitis.

P T Doyle, G F Abercrombie, J D Jenkins

British Journal of Urology

|January 1, 1977

Summary

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This study describes five male patients with genito-urinary tuberculosis symptoms who showed no bacterial growth in urine cultures. Four patients responded well to tetracycline treatment, suggesting an unidentified infectious cause.

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Area of Science:

Urology
Infectious Diseases
Microbiology

Background:

Genito-urinary tuberculosis presents with specific clinical signs and symptoms.
Standard urine cultures may fail to identify the causative organism in some cases.

Purpose of the Study:

To describe a cohort of patients with clinical manifestations of genito-urinary tuberculosis.
To investigate cases where urine cultures were negative despite suggestive symptoms.

Main Methods:

Clinical case series of five young male patients.
Assessment of treatment response to tetracycline.

Main Results:

All five patients exhibited symptoms and signs consistent with genito-urinary tuberculosis.

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No bacterial organisms were successfully cultured from the urine of any patient.

Four out of five patients showed rapid clinical improvement after a course of tetracycline therapy.

Conclusions:

Genito-urinary tuberculosis may present without detectable organisms in urine cultures.
Tetracycline appears effective in treating such cases, indicating a potential bacterial etiology.
Further microbiological investigations are warranted to identify the specific causative agents.