Urine culture results in chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome are:

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In chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome, symptoms can persist even when urine cultures do not grow bacteria. Many cases are nonbacterial or involve inflammation without detectable organisms, so the urine culture can be negative despite clear symptoms. Bacteria may hide in prostatic ducts or form biofilms, be shed intermittently, or be suppressed by prior antibiotics, making a single midstream culture falsely negative. Therefore, a negative culture does not rule out CP/CPPS, and a positive culture, while it suggests bacterial prostatitis, does not by itself define CP/CPPS.