Effect of epidemiological treatment of contacts in preventing recurrences of non-gonococcal urethritis.
- 1 October 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by BMJ in Sexually Transmitted Infections
- Vol. 60 (5) , 312-315
- https://doi.org/10.1136/sti.60.5.312
Abstract
Clinical investigations of the usefulness of routine epidemiological treatment of sexual contacts of men with nongonococcal urethritis (NGU) have produced conflicting results that could have been due to the selection of patients. In this study, which was undertaken in a provincial city, 100 men with untreated sexual partners and 100 demographically similar men with treated sexual partners were reviewed for recurrernces of NGU over 12 mo. Prolonged courses of tetracyclines were found to be beneficial particularly when the sexual partner gave positive results to tests for chlamydiae. There was no clinical evidence that men benefited from routine epidemiological treatment of their sexual partners.This publication has 20 references indexed in Scilit:
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