Filippos Nikitakis¹, Aggeliki Nikolakopoulou² and Dimitrios Kotsiris¹*

¹Department of Urology, Naval and Veterans Hospital of Crete, Chania, 73200, Greece
²Department of Microbiology, Naval and Veterans Hospital of Crete, Chania, 73200, Greece

*Corresponding Author: Dimitrios Kotsiris, Department of Urology, Naval and Veterans Hospital of Crete, Chania, 73200, Greece.

Received: December 13, 2024; Published: January 09, 2025

Abstract

Chronic prostatitis is the most commonly encountered urological diagnosis in men younger than 50 years, with a significant negative impact on quality of life. Gardnerella vaginalis is the causative agent of bacterial vaginosis in females, but this bacterium is also considered as a rare cause of genitourinary infections, like prostatitis, in men having sexual activity. The literature regarding chronic prostatitis due to Gardnerella vaginalis is limited. We present a rare case of a 44-year-old man with symptoms of chronic prostatitis and a “two-glass” test positive for Gardnerella vaginalis, who was successfully treated with antibiotic therapy (clindamycin).

Keywords:Chronic Prostatitis; Bacterial Prostatitis; Gardnerella vaginalis; Genitourinary Infections; Sexually Transmitted Bacterium

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Citation

Citation: Dimitrios Kotsiris., et al. “A Case of Chronic Bacterial Prostatitis Due to Gardnerella vaginalis". Acta Scientific Clinical Case Reports 6.2 (2025): 43-45.

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Copyright: © 2025 Dimitrios Kotsiris., et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.