Penicillinase-producing Neisseria gonorrhoeae ophthalmia neonatorum in Singapore.

Penicillinase-producing Neisseria gonorrhoeae ophthalmia neonatorum in Singapore.

The problem of ophthalmia neonatorum due to penicillinase-producing Neisseria gonorrhoeae (PPNG) has grown with the increasing prevalence of PPNG strains in Singapore. The epidemiological trends, clinical features, and treatment of ophthalmia neonatorum due to PPNG have been determined from the case histories of 11 babies with this condition treated between 1978 and 1980. All 11 cases were cure...

Ophthalmia neonatorum caused by beta-lactamase-producing Neisseria gonorrhoeae.

Intracranial section of the glossopharyngeal and upper roots of the vagus nerves has been recommended, the cardiac dysrhythmia being controlled with atropine, isoprenaline, or transvenous pacemaker. Carbamazepine is known to relieve the pain of uncomplicated glossopharyngeal neuralgia.2 In our first patient the combination of carbamazepine and demand pacemaker abolished both pain and syncope wi...

Epidemiology of penicillinase-producing Neisseria gonorrhoeae in Singapore.

The number of infections with penicillinase-producing Neisseria gonorrhoeae (PPNG) strains in Singapore has risen from three in 1976 to 1792 in 1979. In the latter year they formed 19.2% of all infections with gonorrhoea, and 1280 of the strains isolated were from female prostitutes. The prevalence of PPNG infections is analysed according to the different sections of the community and racial gr...

Spectinomycin-resistant penicillinase-producing Neisseria gonorrhoeae.

Since March 1976, 7 cases of PPNG have been identified in Alaska. However, 3 of these cases occurred in 1980. We recommend that all physicians and other health care providers be alert for any patient diagnosed as having gonorrhea who gives a history of exposure in Southeast Asia or the Philippines. Such patients should be cultured, the lab slip marked "test for possible PPNG", and treatment giv...

Spectinomycin-resistant penicillinase-producing Neisseria gonorrhoeae--California.