BACKGROUND We sought to assess the relationship between bacterial vaginosis (BV) assessed by Gram stain and incident trichomonal, gonococcal, and/or chlamydial genital infection. METHODS This longitudinal study included 3620 nonpregnant women aged 15-44 years who presented for routine care at 12 clinics in Birmingham, Alabama. Participants were assessed quarterly for 1 year. Vaginal smears we...

background: there is little information about the prevalence and risk factors for neisseria gonorrhoeae in iran. the pur pose of this study was to determine the prevalence and risk factors of gonococcal infection in women in babol, north of iran. methods: five hundred- fifty married women, who were younger than 45 years, were assessed of aspects of hidden and obvi ous gonococcal infection. a sa...

Acute salpingitis complicating cervical gonococcal infection is a significant cause of infertility. Relatively little data are available concerning the pathophysiologic mechanisms of this disease. A cohort of 243 prostitutes residing in Nairobi were followed between March 1985 and April 1988. Gonococcal cultures were performed at each visit, and acute salpingitis was diagnosed clinically. Serum...

Background: Infection caused by Neisseria Gonorrhoeae increases the risk of pelvic inflammatory disease (PID). Gonococcal PID tends to be clinically more severe than non-gonococcal ones. The main is present two cases gonococcal PID, with rapid clinical and analytic progression, leading sepsis, but without imaging manifestations. Clinical presentation: 1. 41-year-old patient replacement intraute...

The ferric uptake regulatory protein, Fur, functions as a global regulatory protein of gene transcription in the mucosal pathogen Neisseria gonorrhoeae. We have shown previously that several N. gonorrhoeae Fur-repressed genes are expressed in vivo during mucosal gonococcal infection in men, which suggests that this organism infects in an iron-limited environment and that Fur is expressed under ...

Disseminated gonococcal infection (DGI) is a rare complication of primary infection with Neisseria gonorrhoeae. Cardiac involvement in this condition is rare, and is usually limited to endocarditis. However, there are a number of older reports suggestive of direct myocardial involvement. We report a case of a 38-year-old male with HIV who presented with chest pain, pharyngitis, tenosynovitis, a...

Disseminated gonococcal infection was diagnosed in an immunocompromised patient who presented with oliogoarthropathy and tenosynovitis. The gonococcal isolate was prototrophic, showed intermediate resistance to penicillin, and belonged to serogroup WII/III. An isolate from the patient's sexual contact showed similar characteristics. The patient had a Saccharomyces opsonin defect, which is assoc...

Douching has been linked to gonococcal or chlamydial cervicitis and pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) in retrospective studies. The authors conducted a 1999-2004 prospective observational study of 1,199 US women who were at high risk of acquiring chlamydia and were followed for up to 4 years. Cervical Neisseria gonorrhoeae and Chlamydia trachomatis were detected from vaginal swabs by nucleic ac...