The prevalence of urogenital mycoplasmas in men with NGU in Upper Silesia (Poland) was studied. Mycoplasmas were detected in 36.7% men (Ureaplasma parvum and Mycoplasma genitalium were found in 30% and 16.7% respectively). Urealyticum urealyticum was not detected. We suggest including M. genitalium in the diagnostic scheme for nongonococcal urethritis (NGU).

Amyloid tumour involving the urethra is a well recognised but rare occurrence. Chronic inflammation secondary to gonococcal urethritis is thought to be a possible predisposing factor.We report the case of a young man who presented with nongonococcal urethritis and haematuria and was subsequently found to have primary amyloid of the urethra. University Department of Medical Microbiology and Geni...

Between April 23, 1956, and April 22, 1957, 583 male patients were diagnosed as having nongonococcal urethritis at the Venereal Diseases Department at St. Thomas's Hospital, London. 466 of these patients were whites while the other 117 were Negroes. A search for the Trichomonas vaginalis in the genital tract was made in every case by the direct moist-slide method. The material examined was obta...

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...

Of the 229 806 new male patients attending venereal disease clinics in England in 1976, 31.9% had recognisable non-specific genital infection (NSGI), which was easily the most common diagnostic category of the sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) and one which had increased more markedly than all the others in the previous 25 years. Many more cases of nongonococcal urethritis (NGU) are conceale...

Since the isolation by Dienes and Esdall (1937) of a strain of Mycoplasma from a patient with a Bartholin's gland abscess, numerous attempts have been made to provide definite proof of the aetiological role of Mycoplasma in urogenital tract infections, especially nongonococcal urethritis (NGU). Most of the earlier studies were concerned with Mycoplasma hominis, but it now appears that this spec...

In view of the appreciable number of cases of nongonococcal urethritis (NGU) which failed to clear up or relapsed after treatment with a 5-day course of oxytetracycine at St. Thomas' Hospital, observations were carried out in an effort to determine whether residual infection in the anterior or posterior urethra was primarily responsible for the persistence of threads in the first urine specimen...

Previous investigations have demonstrated the existence of basophilic, intracytoplasmic inclusions in epithelial cells obtained from the anterior urethra of nongonococcal urethritis (NGU) patients (Johnston and McEwin, 1945; Harkness, 1945, 1950; Williams, 1946; Harkness and Henderson-Begg, 1948). Pleuropneumonialike organisms (PPLO) were frequently recovered in culture from these NGU patients ...