Scheibel J H, Andersen J T, Brandenhoff P, Geerdsen J P, Bay-Nielsen A, Schultz B A, Walter S
Scand J Urol Nephrol. 1983;17(1):47-50. doi: 10.3109/00365598309179780.
The etiology of acute epididymitis was studied in 52 patients. Infection with Chlamydia trachomatis was demonstrated by culture or serology in 13 patients. In men under the age of 25 C. trachomatis was associated with 7 out of 9 cases of epididymitis, in contrast to none of the 19 cases in men above 35. Culture from the urethra is probably sufficient in diagnosing infection with C. trachomatis in patients with acute epididymitis, since only one patient with a negative urethral culture had a chlamydia-positive aspirate from the epididymis. Half of the cases of epididymitis in men above the age of 35 years were associated with urinary tract infection. One patient was infected with N. gonorrhoeae and one had tuberculosis of the epididymis.
对52例急性附睾炎患者的病因进行了研究。通过培养或血清学检查发现13例患者感染沙眼衣原体。在25岁以下的男性中，9例附睾炎病例中有7例与沙眼衣原体有关，而在35岁以上的男性中，19例病例均未发现与沙眼衣原体有关。对于急性附睾炎患者，尿道培养可能足以诊断沙眼衣原体感染，因为只有1例尿道培养阴性的患者附睾吸出物沙眼衣原体呈阳性。35岁以上男性的附睾炎病例中有一半与尿路感染有关。1例患者感染淋病奈瑟菌，1例患有附睾结核。
