Asymptomatic non-specific urethritis.

Asymptomatic non-specific urethritis.

Non-specific urethritis is without doubt the commonest form of urethritis in men. The reported figures of cases of non-gonococcal urethritis for England and Wales, since they were first recorded separately in 1951, have steadily increased from 10,794 to 35,721 in 1968 (Department of Health and Social Security, 1969). The majority of these cases of non-gonococcal urethritis are non-specific in n...

Screening asymptomatic men for non-specific urethritis.

F or a clinical guideline to be of use, it needs to make clear recommendations for practice based on the available evidence. But what should be recommended when the evidence is finely balanced, limited and/or contradictory? An example of this is whether or not men without symptoms should be screened for non-specific urethritis (NSU)—a decision faced by virtually all clinicians working in sexual...

Non-specific urethritis.

Non-specific Urethritis*

The editorial of a recent number of the British Journal of Venereal Diseases (1953) stressed the problem of non-specific urethritis. The prevalence of the disease was noted, namely 10,794 new male cases in 1951 compared with 14,975 new male cases of gonorrhoea. Mention is then made of the possibility of a virus, and of organisms of the pleuropneumonia group being the cause. In conclusion it is ...

Non-specific urethritis.

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...