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1. Enrichment of semen culture in the diagnosis of bacterial prostatitis.

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Iovene MR, Martora F, Mallardo E, De Sio M, Arcaniolo D, Del Vecchio C, Pagliuca C, Signoriello G, and Vitiello M

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Bacteria classification, Bacteria growth & development, Bacteria pathogenicity, Bacterial Infections microbiology, Biofilms, Culture Media chemistry, Humans, Male, Prostate microbiology, Prostatitis microbiology, Sensitivity and Specificity, Specimen Handling methods, Urine microbiology, Bacteria isolation & purification, Bacterial Infections diagnosis, Bacteriological Techniques methods, Culture Techniques methods, Prostatitis diagnosis, Semen microbiology
Abstract

The objective was to investigate the diagnostic accuracy of our microbiological protocol to simplify the evaluation of bacterial prostatitis in the clinical practice. Our findings show the possibility to apply our alternative enrichment semen culture method to detect prostatic bacterial infection with higher sensitivity than the gold standard M&S technique., (Copyright © 2018 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.)

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2018
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2. A new enrichment diagnostic platform for semen culture.

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Iovene MR, Martora F, Bombace F, Montella F, Del Vecchio C, De Rosa M, D'Oriano V, Galdiero M, and Vitiello M

Subjects
Bacteria classification, Bacteria pathogenicity, Humans, Infertility microbiology, Male, Retrospective Studies, Sensitivity and Specificity, Specimen Handling methods, Specimen Handling standards, Urine, Bacterial Infections diagnosis, Culture Techniques methods, Culture Techniques standards, Infertility diagnosis, Semen microbiology
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Urogenital bacterial infections have been described in literature as a potential cause of infertility. For the consequences that a failure in diagnosis could have on the evolution of male urogenital infectious disease, an accurate microbiological procedure to investigate the bacterial species composition of seminal fluid plays a crucial role to better understand the eventual correlation with infertility. In order to improve the quality of semen culture investigations, we have developed a new enrichment diagnostic platform. Semen samples of 540 infertile men were simultaneously analyzed using the standard microbiological semen culture method and an alternative new experimental technique (Brain Heart Infusion broth, BHI, enrichment). Our results established the possibility to apply BHI enrichment to detect bacteria from semen samples with higher sensitivity (100%) and negative predictive value (100%) than the standard technique., (Copyright © 2017 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.)

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2018
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3. A new enrichment diagnostic platform for semen culture

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Francesca Bombace, Mariateresa Vitiello, Fortunato Montella, Virginia D'Oriano, Michele De Rosa, Francesca Martora, Chiara Del Vecchio, Marilena Galdiero, Maria Rosaria Iovene, Iovene, M. R., Martora, F., Bombace, F., Montella, F., Del Vecchio, C., De Rosa, M., D'Oriano, V., Galdiero, M., Vitiello, M., Iovene, Maria Rosaria, Martora, Francesca, Bombace, Francesca, Montella, Fortunato, Del Vecchio, Chiara, DE ROSA, Michele, D'Oriano, Virginia, Galdiero, Marilena, and Vitiello, Mariateresa

Subjects
0301 basic medicine, Infertility, Male, Microbiology (medical), Semen culture, Semen, Urine, Sensitivity and Specificity, Microbiology, Specimen Handling, Andrology, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Culture Techniques, Medicine, Humans, Molecular Biology, Brain-heart Infusion broth, Retrospective Studies, 030219 obstetrics & reproductive medicine, Bacteria, BHI enrichment, business.industry, Bacterial Infections, medicine.disease, Predictive value, Standard technique, 030104 developmental biology, Infectious disease (medical specialty), business
Abstract

Urogenital bacterial infections have been described in literature as a potential cause of infertility. For the consequences that a failure in diagnosis could have on the evolution of male urogenital infectious disease, an accurate microbiological procedure to investigate the bacterial species composition of seminal fluid plays a crucial role to better understand the eventual correlation with infertility. In order to improve the quality of semen culture investigations, we have developed a new enrichment diagnostic platform. Semen samples of 540 infertile men were simultaneously analyzed using the standard microbiological semen culture method and an alternative new experimental technique (Brain Heart Infusion broth, BHI, enrichment). Our results established the possibility to apply BHI enrichment to detect bacteria from semen samples with higher sensitivity (100%) and negative predictive value (100%) than the standard technique.

Published
2018

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