PMID: 7020291Jan 1, 1981Paper

Incidence of female gonorrhoea in relationship with inflammatory gynaecological diseases - verification from cultures (author's transl)

Zentralblatt für Gynäkologie
A KosmowskiD Baumann

Abstract

Gonorrhoea was detected in 7.3 per cent of 423 patients with gynaecological inflammations. Positive findings were recorded from 8.5 per cent of 248 patients with adnexitis and 6.9 per cent of 130 patients with fluor. However, gonorrhoea incidence among 31 patients with pointed condyloma was as low as 3.2 per cent. These findings were found to differ drastically from the data so far obtained from the common approach of microscopic diagnosis by which hardly any positive detection of gonococci had been recordable from gynaecological out-patients over the years. The present considerable rise in positive findings has resulted only from the use of a modified transport medium, according to Stuart, which proved to be highly applicable to gynaecological practice. With the authors' patients, the new approach showed the presence of gonorrhoea in one of 14 patients with inflammatory gynaecological processes. Against the background of the present epidemiological situation, verification of gonococci from cultures should be made an integral component of gynaecological routine checks.

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