To the Editor: We report a case of male gonococ-cal urethritis that persisted despite ciprofloxacin therapy. The isolate was found to be highly resistant (MIC 32 µg/mL). A 30-year-old man visited his family physician with a 2-day history of urethral discharge and dysuria. The symptoms began 7 days after a single, unprotected orogenital contact with a female hitchhiker. The patient denied exchan...

The opacity (Opa) proteins of Neisseria gonorrhoeae are a family of outer membrane proteins demonstrating phase and antigenic variation. N. gonorrhoeae strain FA0190 has 11 opa loci that encode at least 8 antigenically distinct Opa proteins. To determine if expression of one Opa protein or a subset of them is favored during gonococcal infection, we inoculated Opa-negative variants of strain FA1...

a 4-day-old holstein bull calf with considerable oedema of the belly (water belly) was referred to theveterinary teaching hospital of the school of veterinary medicine, shiraz university. the owner did notobserve any urination since birth. rupture of the urethra was suspected. perineal urethrotomy was performed. subsequently, catheterization of urethra revealed the obstruction near the external...

Exposure to estrogen-mimicking chemicals during critical periods of development, such as infancy, may have adverse effects. However, these effects can be difficult to characterize in most epidemiologic studies. For example, growth of reproductive organs may be susceptible to estrogenic chemicals, but measuring it requires skilled ultrasound examination; timing of pubertal onset may be altered, ...

PURPOSE In this study, we evaluated the effect of preputial type on bacterial colonization and wound healing in boys undergoing circumcision. MATERIALS AND METHODS This study consisted of 78 boys consecutively admitted to our clinic for circumcision between 2009 and 2011. Preputial status was classified into five types on the basis of preputial retractability. One sterile culture swab was swe...

OBJECTIVE To assess whether syndromic management of genital ulcer disease was sound, if based on the premise that men with genital ulcers rarely have a concomitant urethral infection. METHODS Specimens were taken in 1998 from 186 mine workers in Carletonville, South Africa, who were seen consecutively with genital ulcers. The specimens comprised a swab from the ulcer, a urethral swab for a Gr...

Background and objective: Proteus mirabilis is part of the Enterobacteriaceae family, Gram negative bacterium which typically lives in human gut, means when it causes illness can be a serious bloodstream infection, urinary tract infection or disseminated infection. UreC ZapA virulent genes constitute major pathogenicity this organism as well its resistance to antibiotics. This study was carried...

More than 100 human papillomavirus (HPV) types have been identified of which at least 42 are associated with infections of the genital tract [1]. HPV infection is commonly occurring as a sexually transmitted infection in Romania [2]. HPV infection with oncogenic high-risk types may be find in all cases of cancers in the anogenital tract in humans, for example cervical, penile and anal cancers. ...