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SUBMITTER: Wu Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7187444 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Wu Yi Y Jiang Haiyang H Tan Mingbo M Lu Xuedong X
The Prostate 20200312 7
<h4>Background</h4>The pathogens responsible for chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome (CP/CPPS; NIH category III) are not currently known. the present study utilized high-throughput next-generation sequencing to screen for potential pathogens associated with NIH category III CP (CP III).<h4>Methods</h4>This study included 33 patients with CP III and 30 healthy men, from which one sample each of urethral secretions and expressed prostatic secretion (EPS) was collected. High-throughput ...[more]