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Chlamydial seminal vesiculitis without symptomatic urethritis and epididymitis
Author(s) -
FURUYA RYOJI,
TAKAHASHI SATOSHI,
FURUYA SEIJI,
TAKEYAMA KOH,
MASUMORI NAOYA,
TSUKAMOTO TAIJI
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
international journal of urology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.172
H-Index - 67
eISSN - 1442-2042
pISSN - 0919-8172
DOI - 10.1111/j.1442-2042.2006.01317.x
Subject(s) - epididymitis , medicine , urethritis , asymptomatic , chlamydia trachomatis , chlamydia , urethra , urology , pathology , gynecology , immunology , surgery
We previously reported that seminal vesiculitis was associated with acute epididymitis, and that Chlamydia trachomatis was the major causative pathogen for infection of the seminal vesicle, suggesting that seminal vesiculitis was a discrete disease entity. In this paper, we report two patients with bacteriologically and cytologically proven seminal vesiculitis who had asymptomatic urethritis but not epididymitis. The clinical courses of these patients suggest that chlamydial seminal vesiculitis may be a cause of asymptomatic infection of the urethra or subsequent development of acute epididymitis.