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A 36-year-old male asked:

Was takin bactrim (sulfamethoxazole and trimethoprim) ds had problems urologists suspects prostatitiis, took urine culture colony count=10000-25000 is there an infection somewhere?

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Contamination: colony counts of 100,000 colonies are considered as infection.

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