Bacteriological culture of urine, prostate juice, sperm for microflora with determination of sensitivity to antibiotics*

Normally, urine, prostate fluid and sperm are sterile liquids, and should not contain any microflora. For this reason, the ingress of even opportunistic microflora, depending on the localization, can provoke diseases such as:

• cystitis;
• urethritis;
• pyelonephritis;
• prostatitis;

However, the urethra is not a sterile channel, and often in the seeding of all three of these fluids, both pathogenic and opportunistic microorganisms are often present. In this regard, a quantitative ratio is considered as an assessment for making a decision on the clinical significance of the results. So for conditionally pathogenic microflora, it is customary to consider values (from 10 to 3 degrees / 10 to 5 degrees) CFU (colony-forming units) as clinically significant.