Diagnosis and Treatment of Trichomonal Urethritis in Nigerian Males.

The observations on which this paper is based were prompted by the high incidence of urethritis in adult males seen at the Yaba Clinic which is the General Out-patient Department of Lagos Teaching Hospital. It was noticed that some of these patients consistently failed to respond to penicillin injections and other antibiotics routinely used here for the treatment of gonorrhoea. Several of them admitted to having received as many as fifty to a hundred injections of penicillin in the Lagos area with practically no improvement in their condition. The large quantity of expensive drugs wasted on these men is a drain on the economy of these hospitals, thus emphasizing the importance of investigating each patient carefully before instituting treatment.