The Journal of Urology Vol. 203, No. 4S, Supplement, Sunday, May 17, 2020
Study: Chronic prostatitis/
Chronic pelvic pain syndrome (CPPS) is a syndrome that shares clinical features with urinary infections and a certain subset of patients improve with antibiotics. However, traditional cultures of urine and expressed prostatic secretions often fail to identify an organism. Next-generation sequencing (NGS) analyzes microbial DNA and can identify organisms that fail to grow in traditional cultures. We sought to compare traditional cultures with NGS in men with CPPS and examine the impact on symptoms and treatment response. Read Study