A polymerase chain reaction (PCR) method was compared to standard methods (cultures for Neisseria gonorrhoeae and Chlamydia trachomatis and an enzyme-immunoassay for C. trachomatis) in diagnosis of gonococcal and chlamydial urethritis in 40 male patients with urethritis. Gonococcal urethritis was diagnosed by detection of a 206 bp DNA fragment amplified by PCR with N. gonorrhoeae-specific prime...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to ascertain the clinical characteristics associated with herpes simplex virus (HSV) urethritis in men and to compare those with chlamydial urethritis. METHODS We compared clinical and laboratory data from men diagnosed with polymerase chain reaction confirmed HSV urethritis with those of men with chlamydial urethritis presenting to Melbourne Sexual Health...

Non-gonococcal urethritis (acute Hecht type).3 4 7 Non-gonococcal urethritis (subacute Waelsch type) . . 22 76 98 Morning discharge frankly purulent but non-gonococcal . . 50 97 147 Minimal discharge and gonophobia . 298 3)4 692 Urethritis with joint complications.16 78 94 Urethritis with ocular disturbances 4 22 26 Conjunctivo-urethro-synovitis (Reiter's syndrome) . . 2 18 20 Other types of no...

One hundred and thirty-eight male patients presented unth. a total of 146 episodes of urethritis at a Kuala Lumpur STD clinic over a period of six months. Gonorrhoea accounted for almost 4 out of 5 cases of male urethritis. The incidence of betalactamase producing strains of Neisseria gonorrhoeae was 36 percent. Furthermore nearly 3 out of 10 cases of gonococcal urethritis developed post-gonoco...

Carriage of Haemophilus ducreyi has not been adequately investigated in men, and its role in urethritis is unknown. In this study 456 men with H. ducreyi-culture positive genital ulcers were investigated. Among these men, 16 (3.5%) had urethritis. H. ducreyi was isolated from the urethra of nine men (1.9%). Of 57 men who had chancroid but not urethritis, none had H. ducreyi isolated from the ur...

Urethral specimens from 477 men were collected with endourethral swabs and examined for Chlamydia trachomatis by cell culture on McCoy cells pretreated with idoxuridine. Of these men, 141 had gonococcal urethritis, 262 non-gonococcal urethritis (NGU), and 74 showed no evidence of urethritis. Of 118 men with heterosexually acquired gonococcal urethritis, thirty (25 per cent.), and of 23 men with...

BACKGROUND Male urethritis may be caused by mycoplasmas. Since Mycoplasma genitalium has previously been isolated from the urethra of two men with non-gonococcal urethritis (NGU), it was the aim of the study further to elucidate its role by measuring the prevalence of this organism in men with NGU. MATERIAL AND METHODS The polymerase chain reaction was used. Two different sequences of the gen...

Aim: In this study, it was aimed to determine the frequency of asymptomatic Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), Hepatitis B, C, and syphilis in circumcised patients diagnosed with urethritis transmitted by sexual intercourse because unprotected contact. Material Methods: We retrospectively investigated serological results HIV, Syphilis diseases 364 male urethritis, all them were during childhoo...

The association between urinary abnormalities detected by the two-glass urine test and objective urethritis was investigated in a study of 221 male patients with non-gonococcal urethritis. A strong correlation existed between urinary threads and urethritis, but use of the test for diagnosis and in the assessment of cure is limited by its poor predictive value in both treated and untreated patie...

Liquid-based urine cytology (LB-URC) was evaluated for cytological diagnosis and detection of human papillomavirus (HPV), Mycoplasma, and Ureaplasma. Midstream urine samples were collected from 141 male patients with urethritis and 154 controls without urethritis, and sediment cells were preserved in liquid-based cytology solution. Urethral swabs from urethritis patients were tested for the pre...