Asymptomatic Gonorrhea in Men: Caused by Gonococci with Unique Nutritional Requirements
- 17 June 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 196 (4296) , 1352-1353
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.405742
Abstract
In a retrospective case-control study, gonococci with nutritional requirements for arginine, hypoxanthine, and uracil were recovered from 24 of 25 men with asymptomatic gonorrhea and 10 of 25 men with symptomatic gonorrhea (P = .0001). These strains represent a smaller proportion of gonococcal isolate from blacks than from whites. Asymptomatic urethral infection is important in the epidemiology of gonorrhea, particularly among whites.This publication has 10 references indexed in Scilit:
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