Purpose: To investigate the serotypes of adenovirus causing conjunctivitis in Hanoi, Vietnam. Design: Clinical diagnosis of adenoviral conjunctivitis and laboratory based experimental study. Methods: We collected 21 conjunctival swabs from 21 different patients with a clinical presentation compatible with adenoviral conjunctivitis, in Hanoi, Vietnam. Immunochromatography and real-time PCR were ...

PURPOSE To compare the clinical and bacteriological effects of fucidic acid (Fucithalmic: 1.0%) and chloramphenicol (Minims(R): 0.5%) eye drops in neonates with a clinical diagnosis of acute conjunctivitis of suspected bacterial origin. METHODS A TOTAL OF 456 N: ewborns with gestational age > 32 weeks with acute conjunctivitis of suspected bacterial origin acquired within the first 28 days of...

^He ordinary form, or possibly one ought rather to say, the )Vell-recognised form, of gonorrhoeal ophthalmia or conjunctivitis ls the result of direct infection of the conjunctiva with pus from the urethra, and has the following marked characteristics. It ls at the onset unilateral, though after a time the second eye is Very apt to be infected from the first; the inflammation is violent; there ...

The gonococcal porA pseudogene is a popular target for in-house Neisseria gonorrhoeae PCR methods. With this study we present two novel findings: the first case of an N. gonorrhoeae porA pseudogene PCR false-negative result caused by sequence variation, and in the same organism, the first description of a clinical N. gonorrhoeae strain harbouring an N. meningitidis porA sequence.

110 patients with uncomplicated gonococcal urethritis were treated with 2 g spectinomycin (Trobicin) intramuscularly. Seventy-five patients were available for follow-up and there was only one treatment failure, giving a cure rate of 98-6%. Of the 99 gonococcal isolates, 59 were sensitive to 5 microng/ml of spectinomycin or less and 40 were sensitive to 10 microng/ml. In a small sample of patien...

Swediaur (1819) commented on the lack of previous mention of swelling of the knees as a consequence of 'blennorrhagia' and reported that he had personally attended several patients in whom the arthropathy started from the 8th to the 16th day of the illness; it was not until the turn of the century that gonococcal arthritis was eventually defined as a clinical entity in association with gonococc...

Gordon (1943) stated that all cases of urethritis were gonococcal in origin. Mast (1948) thought N.G.U. was a new disease. Viewing the subject from a historical standpoint, Harkness (1950) quoted Luys (1922) to the effect that Aretaeus of Cappadocia in the 1st century A.D. had distinguished between spermatorrhoea and pathological discharges and had recognized a thick white discharge from acute ...

The Australian Gonococcal Surveillance Programme (AGSP) examined 2,817 isolates of Neisseria gonorrhoeae in the period 1 January to 31 December 1997, a number similar to that reported in 1996. The biggest change in incidence of gonococcal disease occurred in New South Wales and Queensland where a 20% rise in the number of isolates was noted. In the latter case this was due to improved surveilla...