OBJECTIVES To study the treatment efficacy of tetracyclines and azithromycin in Mycoplasma genitalium positive patients attending an STD clinic. METHODS All M genitalium positive patients (34 men and 26 women) attending an STD clinic during a 6 month period were treated with antibiotics. All patients known to be partners of M genitalium positive patients and those who were M genitalium positi...

Utero cervix usually constitutes the majority of specimens received at histopathology section in department of pathology. A variety of rare but interesting lesions may occur in the cervix and create problems in diagnosis. Difficulties in distinction from well-differentiated adenocarcinoma can result in potentially major adverse consequences for the patient in the form of inappropriate therapy. ...

BACKGROUND To investigate the infection status and predominant genotype distribution of human papillomavirus (HPV) infection among Chinese patients with mucopurulent cervicitis (MPC) or cervical cancer (CC) in Hangzhou. METHODS Initially, 217 cases of healthy cervix controls (n=50), acute MPC (n=89), and CC (n=78) were included; samples were collected between January 1, 2010, and January 30, ...

Case Report A 42 year male patient presented with recurrent papule formation with little itching on his glans penis, which soon rupture and turn to an ulcer. Small ulcers coalesce to form larger ulcer (fig 1). This repeated bout of ulcer formation was going on for several months. He was circumscribed and no complaint with urination. In spite of various treatments received from various private p...

Cervical secretions from 157 women were examined for antibody against Neisseria gonorrhoeae by an indirect immunofluorescent antibody test. Antigonococcal antibody was detected in 73 (97%) of 75 infected women, being of the IgG class in 73 (97%), of the IgA class in 71 (95%), and of the IgM class in 29 (39%). IgM antibody was nearly always associated with infections of less than 15 days' durati...

Various isoforms of the glycolytic enzyme pyruvate kinase are expressed in different cell types. One of these isoforms, Tu M2-PK, is over-expressed in tumor cells and released into body fluids. Plasma determination of Tu M2-PK has been shown to discriminate between benign and malignant lesions. Tu M2-PK was quantitated in the plasma of 50 patients with cervical carcinoma, 10 patients with chron...

A request for sterilization was furnished by general practitioners and the operations were performed under the National Health Services. The patients were booked and their names placed on the waiting list. A number of surgeons shared the operative responsiibility. Of 238 patients, 65 (27.2 per cent) were between 20 30 years, 140 patients (60.0 per cent) were between 30 40 years and 33 patients ...

Systematic identification, treatment and follow-up of women with chlamydial cervicitis among those seeking abortion in 4 neighboring London inner city clinics over 1 year is described. All consecutive patients seeking abortion from September 1986-September 1987 were offered preabortion screening for infection; chlamydia specimens were taken with dry cotton swabs and smears examined with the Mi...