Single-dose Treatment of Non-Specific Urethritis

Single-dose Treatment of Non-specific Urethritis.

Tetracycline treatment for non-specific urethritis.

The conclusions, where pertinent, of the 10 papers on the treatment of non-specific urethritis which have appeared in the British Journal of Venereal Diseases between 1971 and now are reviewed. Recent studies purport to argue, but in fact assume, that tetracyclilne treatment for non-specific urethritis is both effective and desirable; current practice agrees with this assumption. To prove effec...

A 'single dose' treatment of gonococcal urethritis with rifampicin.

Rifampicin (Rifadin), a semisynthetic antibiotic, belongs to the family of rifamycins and is produced by Streptomyces mediterranei. It is known to be effective in the treatment of gonorrhoea, and serum concentrations after a single oral dose of 900 mg. have been shown to range from 27-2 F±g./ml. at 2 hrs to 1-64 ,ug./ml. at 24 hrs, the latter being in excess of the in vitro minimum inhibitory c...

Non-specific urethritis.

Asymptomatic non-specific urethritis.

Non-specific urethritis is without doubt the commonest form of urethritis in men. The reported figures of cases of non-gonococcal urethritis for England and Wales, since they were first recorded separately in 1951, have steadily increased from 10,794 to 35,721 in 1968 (Department of Health and Social Security, 1969). The majority of these cases of non-gonococcal urethritis are non-specific in n...