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In 80 percent of cases, infections are the cause of diseases of the genitourinary system in men. As a rule, infection occurs during unprotected intercourse or if certain rules of hygiene are not observed after the intercourse itself.
The infections themselves can be divided into two groups – directly sexually transmitted infections (STIs or they are also called STDs – diseases …) and bacterial infections.
Sexually transmitted infections (STIs)
This is a group of infections that scientists around the world have been fighting for more than a century with varying success. For example, syphilis and gonorrhea have long been cured. And in the XNUMXth century, much more advanced infections entered the arena, which are essentially non-cellular organisms and are very difficult to detect. Sometimes, to identify an infectious agent, it is necessary to apply measures that provoke its activity before analysis. And the infections themselves are built into the membrane of the cells of the body and, in fact, parasitize on it, causing inflammation in the organs. Therefore, they are also called – latent infections. These include:
To detect these infections, the PCR method (polymerase chain reaction) is widely used; the material for analysis is collected from the urethra in men or from the vagina in women. Recently, an analysis for the presence of antibodies (titers) of these infections in the blood has also become widespread.
Bacteria – Bacterial Infections
Bacterial infections are classified as conditionally pathogenic flora. These are bacteria that can be present in the body and do not harm it in any way, therefore they are conditionally pathogenic, which is a necessary condition for their manifestation as a source of inflammation – high colonization (seeding). These bacteria include:
Staphylococcus Streptococcus Enterococcus Escherihia coli (E.coli) – Escherichia coli and some others, but these diseases in men are most often caused by these.
Their non-hazardous reproduction in the body is considered to be up to 10 to the 6th degree at the survey site. But practice (and discussions in the forum) indicate that even 10 to 3 degrees is often enough for the development of an inflammatory process in the prostate and adjacent organs. Especially in the case of weakened immunity, even small degrees of contamination are sufficient.
These bacteria are transmitted not only sexually, but also in the usual household. For example, staphylococcus often multiplies on the mucous membranes of the nasopharynx, causes vision, sore throat, and from there it can be transferred by blood flow to the pelvic organs, again this can be facilitated by low local immunity.
Enterococcus and E. coli are generally normal flora for the intestines and are present in all of them. But unprotected anal contact is guaranteed to infect a man. Bacteria through the urethra will enter the prostate, seminal tubercle and seminal vesicles. In both cases (STDs and bacterial infections), the main condition for maintaining health is protected sex or contact with a proven, preferably permanent, partner.
Bacterial infections are determined by the usual sowing on the microflora, the same analysis will also determine the antibiotics to which the bacteria are sensitive (which kill them).