Genital infections, sexually transmitted diseases

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Male genital infections

Australia

• Australasian Society for HIV, Viral Hepatitis and Sexual Health Medicine
  • Urethritis - penile
  • Epididymo-orchitis

• Australian Family Physician
  • Prostatitis – diagnosis and treatment [2013]

Canada

• BC Centre for Disease Control
  • Epididymitis

• Canadian Urological Association Journal
  • Management of chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome [2018]

• Public Health Agency of Canada
  • Supplementary statement for recommendations related to the diagnosis, management, and follow-up of epididymitis [2014]
  • Urethritis
  • Epididymitis

Europe

• International Union against Sexually Transmitted Infections
  • The 2024 European guideline on the management of epipidymo-orchitis [2024]
  • 2022 European guideline for the management of balanoposthitis [2022]

France

• BMC Infectious Diseases
  • Estimate of male urethritis incidences in France between 2007 and 2017 with a specific focus on Neisseria gonorrhoeae, Chlamydia trachomatis, and Trichomonas vaginalis infections [2019]

Germany

• GMS German Medical Science
  • Prevalence and treatment of sexually transmitted infections in men followed by urologists in Germany – a cross sectional study with 347,090 men [2018]

• JDDG: Journal der Deutschen Dermatologischen Gesellschaft
  • German evidence- and consensus-based guideline on the management of penile urethritis [2025]

International

• Aging Male
  • Prostatitis and male infertility [2025]

• BJU International
  • Classification systems for chronic pelvic pain in males: a systematic review [2025]

• Cureus
  • Contemporary Management of Chronic Prostatitis [2021]

• Health and Quality of Life Outcomes
  • A systematic review of cross-cultural adaptation of the National Institutes of Health Chronic Prostatitis Symptom Index [2021]

• Medicina
  • Prevalence of Sexual Dysfunction with Chronic Prostatitis/Chronic Pelvic Pain Syndrome (CP/CPPS): An Updated Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis [2025]

Ireland

• Ireland's Health Services
  • Acute Prostatitis
  • Acute Epididymo-orchitis

• Irish Association for Emergency Medicine
  • Management of Patients with Acute Epididymo orchitis in the Emergency Department [2021]

Japan

• Journal of Infection and Chemotherapy
  • The JAID/JSC guidelines to Clinical Management of Infectious Disease 2017 concerning male urethritis and related disorders [2021]

New Zealand

• Best Practice Advocacy Centre New Zealand
  • Prostatitis: diagnosis and management in primary care [2023]

• New Zealand Sexual Health Society
  • Epididymo-orchitis

Republic of Korea

• Investigative and Clinical Urology
  • Epidemiology of mumps, mumps complications, and mumps orchitis in Korea using the National Health Insurance Service database [2023]

Saudi Arabia

• Council of Health Insurance
  • Acute Bacterial Prostatitis [2023]

Taiwan

• Medicine
  • The association between epididymo-orchitis and prostate cancer [2019]

United Kingdom

• BJU International
  • Diagnosis and treatment of chronic bacterial prostatitis and chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome: a consensus guideline [2015]

• British Association for Sexual Health and HIV
  • United Kingdom British association for sexual health and HIV national guideline for the management of epididymo-orchitis, 2020 [2021]
  • NGU 2015 [2015]

• National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
  • Prostatitis (acute): antimicrobial prescribing [2018]

• Primary Care Dermatology Society
  • Balanitis

• Right Decisions
  • Acute Prostatitis and Epididymitis

United States

• American Urological Association
  • Diagnosis and Management of Male Chronic Pelvic Pain (Chronic Prostatitis/Chronic Pelvic Pain Syndrome and Chronic Scrotal Content Pain): AUA Guideline [2025]

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  • Epididymitis - STI Treatment Guidelines [2021]

• U.S. Pharmacist
  • Antibiotic Therapy for Epididymitis [2015]

WHO

• World Health Organization
  • Surgical approaches to the urogenital manifestations of lymphatic filariasis. Report from an informal consultation among experts [2019]

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• Topic
  • Sexually transmitted infections
  • Male infertility
  • Male genital diseases