Why PCR can diagnose prostatitis?
PCR technology is the recent study of nucleic acid molecular biology created by new technologies, it can in a short time would be extremely small amount of genetic material – DNA amplification of a few hundred or even several million times larger, with a rapid, sensitive, efficient and specific characteristics. In recent years, has been widely used in genetic disease diagnosis, pathogen inspection, oncogene detection and other fields.
As the prostate caused by the pathogen more, and most difficult to train, so a lower detection rate, while the PCR examination with a high degree of sensitivity and specificity, so prostatitis pathogen detection has important practical role. In particular, pairs of Neisseria gonorrhoeae, Mycoplasma, chlamydia infections such as prostatitis, as long as taking a small amount of prostatic fluid, can be quickly detected, so the clinical selection of drug use has an important guiding role.
If patients with prostatic fluid culture negative, while the use of antimicrobial drugs for poor, it can carry out the checks to clear pathogens and guide medication.