Prostatitis is usually more common after nongonococcal urethritis (NGU) than after gonococcal urethritis (King, 1964; British Medical3Journal, 1972; Schofield, 1972). Observations made during the early part of a tour of duty in 1970 as Venereologist at the British Military Hospital in Singapore suggested that the reverse might be the case there. It was, therefore, decided to examine the prostat...

Dysuria due to urethritis is a widespread problem in adolescent girls which can be caused by either a urinary tract infection or a sexually transmitted disease. The incidence of urethritis due to sexually transmitted infections is highest in sexually active adolescent girls. Cases of urethritis might be complicated by cervicitis and an ascending pelvic inflammatory disease. Therefore, girls wit...

BACKGROUND Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) of the pharynx are common among men who have sex with men (MSM); the degree to which these infections are transmitted through oral sex is unknown. METHODS We conducted a case-control study of MSM attending Public Health-Seattle & King County STD Clinic between 2001 and 2013 to estimate the proportion of symptomatic urethritis cases attributabl...

Cervical and endourethral swabs from 360 untreated women attending a sexually transmitted disease (STD) clinic were cultured for Chlamydia trachomatis and other genitourinary pathogens. The patients included contacts of men with non-gonococcal urethritis, women with gonorrhoea, and those in whom symptoms suggestive of urinary tract infection were the main reasons for their attendance. Chlamydia...

OBJECTIVES To determine the aetiology of urethritis in Bangui, Central African Republic. METHODS 410 men presenting with urethral discharge and 100 asymptomatic controls were enrolled. Urethral swabs were obtained and processed by gonococcal culture and polymerase chain reaction for the detection of Neisseria gonorrhoeae, Chlamydia trachomatis, Mycoplasma genitalium, Trichomonas vaginalis, an...

PURPOSE We investigated whether lower urinary tract infection (LUTI), including cystitis or urethritis, is associated with an increased risk of developing prostate cancer (PCa), in a nationwide population-based cohort study. METHODS We identified 14,273 men newly diagnosed with LUTI (9347 with cystitis, and 4926 with urethritis) between 1998 and 2011, from the Taiwan Longitudinal Health Insur...

An endeavour was made to examine the female contacts of all new male N.G.U. patients attending three special treatment centres. 63-6 per cent. of the women were referred by their husbands and the remainder by other sex contacts (Table I). The 250 cases dealt with in this series were unselected except that the contacts of men who developed N.G.U. while under surveillance for gonorrhoea were excl...

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...