The clinical features and aetiology of 100 consecutive symptomatic heterosexual male patients with urethritis were studied from March 1994 to August 1994 in the Genito-Urinary Medicine (GUM) Clinic, Kuala Lumpur Hospital. Gonococcal urethritis (GU) was found to be more common (53%) than non-gonococcal urethritis(47%). All patients with GU confirmed microbiologically had clinically evident ureth...

Objective: The aim of the current study was to assess the incidence of U. urealyticum and Mycoplasma hominis in men with nongonococcal urethritis in Tabriz. Materials and Methods: Two hundred men with confirmed urethritis and 50 healthy men of similar age as control group were investigated for Ureaplasma urealyticum at the medical microbiology laboratory of Sina and Emam hospitals of Tabriz Uni...

INTRODUCTION Gonorrhea and chlamydia are sexually transmitted infections (STI) that are the most common causes of urethritis in men. The role of specific sexual behaviors and presentation of urethritis is often overlooked. METHODS Data was retrospectively reviewed on all men presenting at the major STI clinic in Providence, Rhode Island. Predictors of gonorrhea and chlamydia infection were mo...

OBJECTIVE To identify sexual risk behaviours associated with lifetime risk of urethritis in prison inmates. DESIGN A cross-sectional study using a pre-designed questionnaire. SETTING Fourteen prisons throughout the Sindh Province, Pakistan. SUBJECTS Three thousand three hundred ninety-five prison inmates incarcerated during July, 1994. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE Lifetime risk of urethritis oc...

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...

The first description of abacterial urethritis is attributed to Guiard (1897) and his observation was confirmed by Barlow (1899) who also reported that contagious discharges could occur in which no organisms were detectable. Conventionally, when cases of non-gonococcal urethritis are examined by Gram-stained smears, if no organisms are seen the discharge is termed "abacterial"; if a mixture of ...