Nonspecific Urethritis
- 28 November 1974
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 291 (22) , 1175-1177
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm197411282912208
Abstract
URETHRITIS is an inflammation of the urethra that can be classified as gonococcal or nongonococcal. Although a small proportion of nongonococcal urethritis is associated with trichomoniasis or candidiasis, in approximately 90 per cent of cases a pathogen is not identified by routine screening and culture methods. It is this group that we refer to as nonspecific urethritis.Nonspecific urethritis is exceedingly common. In England, it is the most frequently recorded sexually transmitted disease. In the United States, since it is not a reportable disease, few incidence data are available. In the two venereal-disease clinics with which the Center for Disease . . .Keywords
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