Genital herpesvirus infection in women attending a venereal diseases clinic.

Genital herpesvirus infection in women attending a venereal diseases clinic.

Routine cervical viral cultures (and cultures from lesions if present) were performed on 2630 female patients attending a venereal diseases clinic over a period of four years. Of these patients 96 (3.7%) had genital herpetic infection; of these 23 (24%) were asymptomatic. The association of herpesvirus with other genital infections is considered, but no increase in the incidence of Neisseria go...

Chlamydia trachomatis in women attending a gynaecological outpatient clinic with lower genital tract infection.

In a study of 3794 consecutive women attending a gynaecological outpatient clinic with symptoms of lower genital tract infection (LGTI) 350 (9.2%) harboured Chlamydia trachomatis and 83 (2.2%) Neisseria gonorrhoeae. One hundred and ninety-five patients who were later found to have acute salpingitis and 109 other women in whom the chlamydial cultures were spoiled were excluded from the series. O...

Promiscuity and contraception in a sample of patients attending a clinic for venereal diseases.

A survey by questionnaire of psychiatric disturbance in patients attending a venereal diseases clinic.

Incidence of T-strain mycoplasmas in male and female subjects attending a venereal diseases clinic.

on agar medium and have subsequently been referred to as T-strain mycoplasmas or T-mycoplasmas. Shepard (1956) noted that T-strain mycoplasmas were present in a high proportion of patients with non-gonococcal urethritis, and it was suggested that the organisms played a part in the aetiology of that disease. Because of the increasing prevalence of non-gonococcal urethritis, this hypothesis has s...