Few of the large numbers of patients exposed to gonococcal infection make spontaneous complaint to the venereologist of a sore throat, and it is therefore possible to overlook infection in this region. Fiumara, Wise, and Many (1967) reported a fully documented case of gonococcal tonsillitis and two probable cases of pharyngitis in homosexual males; and Thatcher, McCraney, Kellogg, and Whaley (1...

The last-named may also be due to purulent ophthalmia, which is more prevalent in Eastern countries (Egypt, Palestine, Syria, India, etc.). In Egypt many patients are also affected by cataract, glaucoma with sunken globes, narrow palpebral fissures, and narrow or obliterated fornices. The sphincter iridis in brown and black eyes is stronger than that in green or blue eyes, and the extra-ocular ...

A longitudinal study combining multilocus sequence typing with molecular evolutionary analysis determined the distribution, population structure, and evolution of antibiotic resistance in Neisseria gonorrhoeae isolates in Saskatchewan that were collected between 2005 and 2008. Of 195 gonococcal isolates examined, 29 sequence types (STs) were identified with 3 major circulating strains (ST-1 thr...

INTRODUCTION Increasing use of nucleic acid amplification tests (NAATs) as the primary means of diagnosing gonococcal infection has resulted in diminished availability of Neisseria gonorrhoeae antimicrobial susceptibility data. We conducted a prospective diagnostic assessment of a real-time PCR assay (NGSNP) enabling direct detection of gonococcal ciprofloxacin susceptibility from a range of cl...

When grown under anaerobic conditions, Neisseria gonorrhoeae, the etiologic agent of the sexually transmitted disease gonorrhea, expresses several novel outer membrane proteins. One of these, Pan 1, has an apparent molecular mass of 54 kDa in electrophoresis and is recognized by serum samples from patients with gonococcal infection. The presence of antibodies to this protein in patient sera sug...

Of the 229 806 new male patients attending venereal disease clinics in England in 1976, 31.9% had recognisable non-specific genital infection (NSGI), which was easily the most common diagnostic category of the sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) and one which had increased more markedly than all the others in the previous 25 years. Many more cases of nongonococcal urethritis (NGU) are conceale...

BACKGROUND Female sex workers (FSWs) are vulnerable to sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and are one of the key populations being infected most by Chlamydia trachomatis and Neisseria gonorrhoeae infections. In Hong Kong, limited data on the burden of chlamydial and gonococcal infections exist because regular screenings are not offered. This study aimed to investigate the prevalence of C. t...

Infection and disease associated with Neisseria gonorrhoeae, the gonococcus, continue to be a global health problem. Asymptomatic and subclinical gonococcal infections occur at a high frequency in females; thus, the true incidence of N. gonorrhoeae infections are presumed to be severely underestimated. Inherent to this asymptomatic/subclinical diseased state is the continued prevalence of this ...

OBJECTIVE To describe the epidemiology and associated clinical features of gonorrhoea and chlamydial infection and to develop a profile of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) in an outer London health district. DESIGN Hospital-based retrospective study. SETTING Genitourinary medicine clinic, Northwick Park Hospital, Harrow and Brent Health Authority. SUBJECTS 70 male and female individua...