OBJECTIVES To investigate the prevalence of human papillomavirus (HPV) in the genital and urinary tract of men with urethritis. METHODS Cell samples were collected from the penis, urethra and urine of 142 men with urethritis. A HPV test was performed on the samples using the modified GP5+/6+ polymerase chain reaction method, and the HPV genotype was determined using a HPV GenoArray test. RE...

Since the wide-range orally administered antibiotics, aureomycin (Finland and others, 1948) and terramycin (Willcox, 1951; Willcox and Findlay, 1952), were first reported as effective in nongonococcal urethritis the question has arisen of their relative efficacy. In a previous paper a comparison was made of the relative efficacy of terramycin, aureomycin, chloramphenicol, sulphonamides, strepto...

Sixty-four men with non-gonococcal urethritis (NGU), seven with gonococcal urethritis (GU), and 30 who had no symptoms or signs of urethritis were studied. Chlamydia trachomatis was isolated from urethral specimens taken from 22% of the men with NGU, and 18% with GU, but not from those who did not have urethritis even though 20 (67%) of them had a history of NGU, GU, or both. The chlamydial iso...

Twenty-two men with non-gonococcal urethritis (NGU), 19 with gonorrhoea, and 22 without urethritis were examined for various micro-organisms. Chlamydia trachomatis was isolated from the urethra of 45% of men with NGU, 21% of those with gonorrhoea, but from none without urethritis. Ureaplasma urealyticum but not Mycoplasma hominis was recovered from a larger proportion of men with NGU than from ...

1. Deguchi T, Maeda S. Mycoplasma genitalium: another important pathogen of nongonococcal urethritis. J Urol. 2002;167:1210–7. doi:10.1016/S00225347(05)65268-8 2. Jensen JS. Mycoplasma genitalium: the aetiological agent of urethritis and other sexually transmitted diseases. J Eur Acad Dermatol Venereol. 2004;18:1–11. doi:10.1111/j.1468-3083.2004.00923.x 3. Mena LA, Mroczkowski TF, Nsuami M, Mar...

The simplest classification of cases of urethritis is a broad division into the gonococcal and nongonococcal varieties. The non-gonococcal group includes a number of conditions in which a cause is identifiable, such as Trichomonas vaginalis, chemical irritants, and strictures or diseases of the upper renal tract, but these and other cases form only a small proportion of the group, and the cause...

Sexually transmitted diseases (STD) are a group of transmittable diseases acquired fundamentally through sexual contact. STD are a social problem resulting from demographic explosion and changes in sexual conduct, which affects teenagers and adults of all socioeconomic strata. The goal of this work was to establish the actual state of the different STD within the studied population. Samples of ...

PURPOSE Our purpose was to conduct a screening test for urethritis or cervicitis as a sexually transmitted disease (STD) by using multiplex polymerase chain reaction(PCR) and to determine the prevalence of Chlamydia trachomatis, Neisseria gonorrhoeae, Mycoplasma genitalium, Ureaplasma urealyticum, Mycoplasma hominis, and Trichomonas vaginalis in asymptomatic people. MATERIALS AND METHODS From...

There is at present little agreement about the significance of the "T" strain mycoplasma in genito-urinary infections. Workers who have studied the problem have expressed opinions which vary from its confident indictment as a cause of "nonspecific urethritis" to its dismissal as simple evidence of promiscuity or as completely irrelevant. Shepard (1956) and Shepard, Lunceford, and Campbell (1964...

OBJECTIVES To measure the prevalence of urethral infections including trichomoniasis in rural Tanzanian men, to assess the prevalence of symptoms and signs among men with Trichomonas vaginalis, and to analyse the risk factors for trichomoniasis. DESIGN A cross sectional study of 1004 men aged 15-54 years in a rural community in north west Tanzania. METHODS Participants were interviewed abou...