Table 3 Oxygen dependence of organisms detected after prostate massage in study patients.

From: Identification of low oxygen-tolerating bacteria in prostate secretions of cancer patients and discussion of possible aetiological significance

Patient code

DATE

Aerobic and facultatively anaerobic Organisms isolated

Obligate anaerobic Organisms isolated

Microaerophylic Organisms isolated

01 ML

6/8/15

Corynebacterium amycolatum Staph haemolyticus

Nil

Nil

02 PH

6/8/15

Strep sp, Staph haemolyticus & C. glucuronydictum

Peptoniphilus harei Veillonella montpenellerensis

Nil

03 PO

10/8/15

Strep sp, Staph hominis & Dermabacter hominis

Nil

Actinomyces neuii

04 HS

11/8/15

Aerococcus urinae, staph epidermidis, Staph simulans Corynebacterium tuberculostearicum

Fusobacterium nucleatum Fusobacterium gondiaformans Peptoniphilus harei Actinobaculum schaali?i

Nil

05 FJD

27/8/15

Nil

Nil

Nil

06 PK

27/8/15

Enterococcus faecalis

Nil

Nil

07 PW

3/9/15

Staph epidermidis & Staph haemolyticus

Nil

Nil

08 JL

27/8/15

Enterococcus faecalis, Staph epiderm & Micrococcus luteus

Nil

Brevibacterium casei

09 CO

10/9/15

Nil

Nil

Nil

10 SP

10/9/15

Strep agalactiae, Gardnerella sp Strep pneumoniae, Strep anginosus

Nil

Nil

11 AH

10/9/15

Staph epiderm, Staph hominis Dermabacter hominis C. tuberculostearicum

Nil

Nil

12 ST

10/9/15

Staph capitis, Staph hominis Strep anginosus Acinetobacter radioresistens

Peptoniphilus harei

Nil

13 PL

10/9/15

C. tuberculostearicum Strep agalactiae, Strep angino Dermobacter hominis

Veillonella parvula Actinobaculum schaalii

Actinomyces turicencis Brevibacterium paucvorans

14 AB

17/9/15

Staph epiderm, Citrobacter koseri Strep pneumoniae

Nil

Nil

15 AO

17/9/15

Staph hominis Staph haemolyticus Strep anginosus

Nil

Nil

16 WP

17/9/15

C. amycolatum Strep anginosus Dermobacter hominis Staph epidermis

Peptostreptococcus anaerobius, Peptoniphilus harei Finegoldia magna

Nil

17 SR

17/9/15

Aerococcus urinae, E. faecalis Staph haem, Staph hominis, M luteus, Strep pneuminiae Kocuria rhizophilia

Nil

Actinomyces neuii

18 PK

17/9/15

Staph epidermidis, Staph capitis, Staph haemolyticus E. faecalis

Nil

Nil