One hundred fourteen heterosexual men with acute nongonococcal urethritis (NGU) and 64 patients without NGU were studied. We determined that Chlamydia trachomatis and Mycoplasma genitalium were strongly associated with acute NGU after controlling, by means of multivariate analysis, for age, race, sexual lifestyle, and coinfection (odds ratio [OR], 13.0, 95% confidence interval [CI], 2.6-64.5; a...

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...

Trichomoniasis is one of the most common sexually transmitted infections worldwide. In women, Trichomonas vaginalis infection may present with vaginitis, cervicitis, or pelvic inflammatory disease, while in men it mainly asymptomatic causes mild and transient symptoms urethritis, epididymitis, prostatitis. past, little importance had been given to impact T. on men’s health, since was believed b...

We report significant failure rates (28%, 95% confidence interval 15%-45%) after administering 1 g azithromycin to men with Mycoplasma genitalium-positive nongonococcal urethritis. In vitro evidence supported reduced susceptibility of M. genitalium to macrolides. Moxifloxacin administration resulted in rapid symptom resolution and eradication of infection in all cases. These findings have impli...

OBJECTIVE To determine the association of Mycoplasma genitalium and Ureaplasma urealyticum in symptomatic male patients presenting with non-gonococcal urethritis in a sexually transmitted infection clinic in Hong Kong. DESIGN Cross-sectional study. SETTING A sexually transmitted infection clinic, Department of Health, Centre for Health Protection, Hong Kong. PATIENTS A cohort of consecuti...

The authors examined three urine specimens from each of 24 men with acute gonococcal urethritis. Gonococcal concentrations in urine were 7 X 10(3)/ml to 9 X 10(8)/ml in first samples, 1 X 10(2)/ml to 5 X 10(6)/ml in midstream samples, and, in the terminal samples from only 22 men, 8 X 10(4)/ml. A further 17 men with symptomless gonococcal urethritis were examined. Seven of them yielded 1 X 10(2...

OBJECTIVE To examine trends in some sexually transmitted diseases in Belgium and to discuss them in the light of the European background. DESIGN Analysis of the time trends of C trachomatis and N gonorrhoeae infections diagnosed by a network of microbiological laboratories, and of male urethritis diagnosed by a network of general practitioners. SETTING Belgium. SUBJECTS Reports of C trach...