Accepted for publication 28 December 1995 Study goal: To compare the efficacy and safety of single 1 g oral azithromycin with doxycycline, 100 mg twice daily for seven days for treatment of uncomplicated urogenital chlamydial infection. Study design: Randomised, unblinded, comparative trial, involving 597 patients demonstrating clinical evidence of genital chlamydia and a positive non-culture a...

A 7-year-old Brahman cow was diagnosed as suffering from chronic foetal mummification of unknown aetiology, concurrent cystic ovarian disease, prolapse of the 2nd cervical ring and chronic cervicitis. Repeated treatment with prostaglandin F2alpha and oestrogen failed to resolve the mummification. A hysterotomy was performed via an incision in the dorsolateral vaginal wall. Good exposure of the ...

1. List biologic and physiologic reasons for the disproportionate adolescent sexually transmitted disease susceptibility. 2. Describe clinical and laboratory findings on examination of a female who has mucopurulent cervicitis. 3. Describe the causative pathogens and etiologic evaluation for vaginitis. 4. List the criteria for diagnosis of pelvic inflammatory disease. 5. Describe the documentati...

Conclusion: Inflammatory lesions were the most common cervical lesions followed by malignancies. Among inflammatory lesions, chronic nonspecific cervicitis was commonly found followed by papillary endocervicitis seen in sexually active females with pelvic inflammatory disease, dysfunctional uterine bleeding, uterine prolapsed, and so on. The most common cervical malignancy was squamous-cell car...

OBJECTIVES To study the prevalence, symptoms, and signs of Mycoplasma genitalium and Chlamydia trachomatis infections in women attending a Swedish STD clinic, accessible for both sexes, and in a group of young women called in the cervical cancer screening programme. METHODS A cross sectional study among female STD clinic attendees in Orebro and a study among women called for Papanicolaou smea...

Mitogen-activated protein kinase/extracellular signal-regulated kinase kinase kinase 3 (MEKK3) is an important protein kinase and a member of the MAPK family, which regulates cellular responses to environmental stress and serves as key integration points along the signal transduction cascade that not only link diverse extracellular stimuli to subsequent signaling molecules but also amplify the ...

OBJECTIVE The intent of this study was to determine the efficacy and tolerance of single-dose oral azithromycin in the treatment of pregnant women with endocervical chlamydial carriage. METHODS A retrospective review of clinic records over a two-year period identified pregnant patients treated with a single 1-g dose of azithromycin for chlamydial carriage. The side effects and subsequent chla...