infected SEMEN, help needed!

[Una Smith]

BCapstone <bcapstone at aol.com> wrote:

>... The patient has rods in his semen and grew
>enterobacter cloacae from blood cultures during acute prostatitis.  I
>cannot confirm its presence in either the semen or expressed prostatic
>secretions so far.

Wait a minute!  Why are you trying so hard to prove that the source
of the infection is (or was) the prostrate?  You have some evidence
that it is *not* the prostrate;  what *else* could be the source?

This is a medical diagnostic problem, and you would probably get far
more relevant advice in some of the sci.med.* newsgroups or mailing 
lists.

-- 
	Una Smith			una.smith at yale.edu

Dept. of Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT  06520-8104  USA