The Bacteriology of Chronic Prostatitis and Seminal Vesiculitis, and Elective Localization of the Bacteria as Isolated

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Abstract
3,500 bacteriological cultures were made from prostate glands and seminal vesicles of patients with some ailment of the prostate or an ailment which might be referable to some such focus. The cultures were made on horse-blood-agar plates and in glucose-brain broth. Only 41% of the organisms grew on the primary blood-agar plates, but they did so after 2-3 cultures in the broth. 200 organisms from 117 cultures were carried through to identification and yielded more than 23 spp., the most frequent ones being streptococci (85), staphylococci (57), and Escherichia, coli (28). Many of the streptococcus cultures were injected into rabbits and in a high % of cases localizations in their bodies were obtained, corresponding to the affected parts of the original patient''s body.

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