A multicentre, double-blind, randomised study comparing the efficacy and safety of oral sparfloxacin (200 mg on day 1 followed by 100 mg daily for 2 or 6 additional days) with doxycycline (200 mg once daily for 7 days) in the treatment of non-gonococcal urethritis in men was conducted. The overall success rates for the three treatment groups were statistically equivalent both at the end of trea...

Objectives: To study the prevalence, symptoms and signs of Mycoplasma genitalium and Chlamydia trachomatis infections in STD clinic attendees and in partners of M genitalium infected patients. Methods: M genitalium and C trachomatis were detected by polymerase chain reaction from urethral and endocervical swab specimens in a cross sectional study among 445 female and 501 male STD clinic attende...

Non-specific urethritis is without doubt the commonest form of urethritis in men. The reported figures of cases of non-gonococcal urethritis for England and Wales, since they were first recorded separately in 1951, have steadily increased from 10,794 to 35,721 in 1968 (Department of Health and Social Security, 1969). The majority of these cases of non-gonococcal urethritis are non-specific in n...

Microsporidia are worldwide ubiquitous intracellular protozoan parasites, which have recently emerged as a significant cause of morbidity in immunocompromised patients, particularly in those with AIDS.' Multiorgan microsporidiosis is well described in these individuals, which underscores the severity of immunodeficiency in patients with microsporidial infection.2 3 In 15-30% of patients with ad...

The clinical course of arthritis associated with venereal urethritis was clearly defined before 1900. Brodie (1818, 1836), Fournier (1868-69), and Launois (1899) published excellent descriptions of the disease, noting the predilection of the arthritis for the joints of the lower extremities, the relapsing course, and the frequency of complications affecting the eyes. Launois gave an accurate ac...

Urethritis associated with urinary calculi is of rare occurrence. Harkness (1950) described cases of urethritis secondary to stones in the urethra, bladder, prostate and Cowper's glands. He also gave the history of a patient who developed acute non-specific urethritis, which was cured without active treatment when a renal stone was passed spontaneously after an attackofureteric colic. Since the...

Ureaplasma urealyticum was isolated in 25.5% of the patients with urethritis and in 12.9% of the patients with prostatitis. The organism was isolated more frequently in non-gonococcal urethritis than in gonorrheal urethritis. It may thus be said that the isolation rate was higher among patients with overt signs or symptoms as compared with the common isolation rate in urine reportedly being abo...

Non-Gonococcal Urethritis.-All inflammatory processes of the male urethra presumed due to sexual intercourse, which were not caused by N. gonorrhoea, H. ducreyi, T. pallidum, the tubercle bacillus, protozoan, metazoan organisms, fungi, mechanical irritants, or tumours, were classified as non-gonococcal urethritis. Acute Urethritis, Non-Gonococcal.-Non-gonococcal urethral infections in which the...

NON-SPECIFIC urethritis is one of the most perplexing conditions ·encountered in the venereal diseases clinic today. In Britain it was thrown into sharp relief during World War 11 as ,those affected in the military hospitals were daily examined for the gonococcus which was found wanting. Altliough non-specific 'urethritis had been recognized as an entity for many years, many venereologists stil...