Chlamydial infection. Role of Chlamydia subgroup A in non-gonococcal and post-gonococcal urethritis.

Non-gonococcal Urethritis.

How do I know I have N.G.U./N.S.U.? Many men will not show signs of N.G.U./N.S.U. Women partners of men with N.G.U./N.S.U. can get nonspecific vaginitis. Women will find that they have a unusual discharge from their vagina or burning when urinating. Women can also have abdominal pain, bleeding between periods, or a low-grade fever. Men get a discharge from their penis and/or burning when urinat...

Non-gonococcal Urethritis.

Non-gonococcal urethritis.

Non-gonococcal urethritis (acute Hecht type).3 4 7 Non-gonococcal urethritis (subacute Waelsch type) . . 22 76 98 Morning discharge frankly purulent but non-gonococcal . . 50 97 147 Minimal discharge and gonophobia . 298 3)4 692 Urethritis with joint complications.16 78 94 Urethritis with ocular disturbances 4 22 26 Conjunctivo-urethro-synovitis (Reiter's syndrome) . . 2 18 20 Other types of no...

Non-gonococcal urethritis contacts.

An endeavour was made to examine the female contacts of all new male N.G.U. patients attending three special treatment centres. 63-6 per cent. of the women were referred by their husbands and the remainder by other sex contacts (Table I). The 250 cases dealt with in this series were unselected except that the contacts of men who developed N.G.U. while under surveillance for gonorrhoea were excl...

Management of non-gonococcal urethritis

Non-gonococcal urethritis (NGU), or inflammation of the urethra, is the most common treatable sexually transmitted syndrome in men, with approximately 20-50 % of cases being due to infection with Chlamydia trachomatis and 10-30 % Mycoplasma genitalium. Other causes are Ureaplasma urealyticum, Trichomonas vaginalis, anaerobes, Herpes simplex virus (HSV) and adenovirus. Up to half of the cases ar...