VENEREAL disease, especially gonorrhoea, is of very common occurrence among students of Makerere University College, in Kampala, Uganda (Arya and Bennett; 1967, 1968), and this provides an excellent opportunity for the study of the treatment of gonorrhoea. Most patients are seen by one doctor, and almost all can be followed up until it is clear that they are either free from infection or have b...

A fluorescent antibody test was used to identify L-Forms of N. gonorrhoeae induced in vitro. It was possible to differentiate the Large Bodies of the L-Forms from parent gonococci and the fluorescent reaction remained specific in the presence of tissue culture cells. A possible method to identify L-Forms of gonococci from patients presenting with postgonococcal urethritis is described.

Forty-two previously untreated male patients with uncomplicated gonococcal urethritis were treated with a single dose oral regimen comprising 3 gm ofamoxycillin and 125 mg of clavulanic acid. Thirty-five patients returned for follow-up and the cure rate among them was 89 percent. The cure rate for patients infected with penicillinase producing Neisseria gonorrhoeae (PPNG) was 73 percent. Furthe...

A case of gonococcal urethritis with bilateral tysonitis is discussed. The patient was treated successfully with oral tetracycline 500 mg 6 hourly for 10 days, with a complete resolution.

for a long time after the cure of the gonorrhzea. It seems that this secondary infection, as like as not with sulphonamide resistant organisms, is well nigh inevitable, but it is debatable whether the condition will clear up properly without adequate local treatment. My own experience leads me to think that usually it will not do so, and in many of my own cases the initial week of chemotherapy ...

Chlamydia trachomatis inclusion counts on inoculated McCoy cell coverslips were used as an index of the degree of infection of the cervix in women and of the urethra in men with urethritis. High inclusion counts were obtained significantly more often from men than from women, from women with cervical ectopy, and from women who had had recent sexual intercourse. Low inclusion counts were signifi...

Ureaplasma urealyticum is a causative agent of non-gonococcal urethritis and is implicated in the pathogenesis of several other diseases. However, U. urealyticum is also frequently found in the normal genitourinary tract. To characterize the distribution pattern of biovars and genotypes in normal physical check-up women and in sex workers, cervical swabs taken from 261 physical check-up clients...