Frequency of Propionibacterium acnes Infection in Prostate Glands with Negative Biopsy Results Is an Independent Risk Factor for Prostate Cancer in Patients with Increased Serum PSA Titers

• Tomoya Kakegawa ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Tomoya Kakegawa, Yuan Bae

  Affiliation Department of Human Pathology, Graduate School and Faculty of Medicine, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan

  ⨯
• Yuan Bae ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Tomoya Kakegawa, Yuan Bae

  Affiliation Division of Surgical Pathology, Tokyo Medical and Dental University Hospital, Tokyo, Japan

  ⨯
• Takashi Ito,

  Affiliation Department of Human Pathology, Graduate School and Faculty of Medicine, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan

  ⨯
• Keisuke Uchida,

  Affiliation Division of Surgical Pathology, Tokyo Medical and Dental University Hospital, Tokyo, Japan

  ⨯
• Masaki Sekine,

  Affiliation Division of Surgical Pathology, Tokyo Medical and Dental University Hospital, Tokyo, Japan

  ⨯
• Yutaka Nakajima,

  Affiliation Division of Surgical Pathology, Tokyo Medical and Dental University Hospital, Tokyo, Japan

  ⨯
• Asuka Furukawa,

  Affiliation Department of Human Pathology, Graduate School and Faculty of Medicine, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan

  ⨯
• Yoshimi Suzuki,

  Affiliation Department of Human Pathology, Graduate School and Faculty of Medicine, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan

  ⨯
• Jiro Kumagai,

  Affiliation Department of Pathology, Yokohama City Minato Red Cross Hospital, Yokohama, Japan

  ⨯
• Takumi Akashi,

  Affiliation Division of Surgical Pathology, Tokyo Medical and Dental University Hospital, Tokyo, Japan

  ⨯
• Yoshinobu Eishi

  * E-mail: eishi.path@tmd.ac.jp

  Affiliations Department of Human Pathology, Graduate School and Faculty of Medicine, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan, Division of Surgical Pathology, Tokyo Medical and Dental University Hospital, Tokyo, Japan

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0521-1670

  ⨯