The management of uncomplicated adult gonococcal infection: should test of cure still be routine in patients attending genitourinary medicine clinics?

International Journal of STD & AIDS
C Harry

Abstract

In this retrospective study of the outcome of treatment of 245 patients (87 females and 158 males) with a diagnosis of Neisseria gonorrhoeae infection seen between 1996 and 2002, 81% (95% confidence interval (CI) 74%-86.8%) of the males and 88.5% (95% CI 79.9%-94.3%) of the females attended for a test of cure. At initial presentation, 93% (95% CI 87.9%-96.5%) and 94.3% (95% CI 89.5%-97.4%) of males respectively, had symptoms and signs of gonococcal infection compared with 48.3% (95% CI 37.4%-59.2%) and 44.8% (95% CI 34.1%-55.9%) of females, and this difference was statistically significant (P = 0.005). Initial diagnosis at first visit was made by Gram-stained smear in 88.6% (95% CI 82.6%-93.1%) of males and 32.2% (95% CI 22.6%-43.1%) of females, a statistically significant difference P = 0.001. There were 12 (4.9%) cases of reinfection that rebooked to attend after failing to attend for their test of cure in two females and 10 males. There were two (0.8%) treatment failures amongst the 245 episodes in two males who still had symptoms when they returned for their test of cure. One male had a ciprofloxacin-resistant strain (CRNG) acquired locally and the other one had a betalactamase-producing CRNG/penicillinase-producing N. gono...Continue Reading

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Mar 11, 2016·Clinical Infectious Diseases : an Official Publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America·Carolien M WindHenry J C de Vries
Aug 13, 2011·The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews·Amita RayNarasimman Swaminathan
Feb 16, 2008·International Journal of STD & AIDS·Tubonye C Harry, Margaret Sillis

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