(n.) A transparent mucous discharge from the membrane of the urethra, commonly an effect of gonorrhea.
(v. i.) To flow in a thin, limpid humor; to ooze, as gleet.
(v. i.) To flow slowly, as water.
Example Sentences:
Gonorrhoea
Definition:
(n.) A contagious inflammatory disease of the genitourinary tract, affecting especially the urethra and vagina, and characterized by a mucopurulent discharge, pain in urination, and chordee; clap.
Example Sentences:
(1) Further purification of ZAB by filtration through Sephadex G-100 gave a preparation (ZAB2) which contained the common antigen as shown by the cross-reactivity of anti-ZAB2 rat serum with seven stains of N. gonorrhoeae.
(2) The index estimated the probability of infection more accurately (p less than 0.01) than did clinicians, performed well in each site, and remained accurate when C. trachomatis and N. gonorrhoeae were considered separately.
(3) From 1983 to 1986 more than 2000 non-penicillinase producing Neisseria gonorrhoeae from Amsterdam, The Hague and Rotterdam were auxotyped and screened for susceptibility to 10 antibiotics by MIC determination.
(4) Seventeen different bacteria were used in the adherence tests; ten strains of alpha-hemolytic streptococci, five from children with infective endocarditis (IE) and five from healthy carriers, two S. aureus, two N. meningitidis, two N. gonorrhoeae and one E. coli.
(5) Direct testing, using colonies of N. gonorrhoeae mixed with the Phadebact gonococcus test reagents, produced noninterpretable results in many cases.
(6) A radioimmunoassay has been developed for the serodiagnosis of gonorrhoea.
(7) Endocervical cultures for Neisseria gonorrhoeae were taken from 4,285 new patients attending the emergency room and outpatient clinics at Women's Hospital, Los Angeles County-University of Southern California Medical Center.
(8) This test for antibody was performed on the sera of women who were exposed to N. gonorrhoeae but who did not become infected, of patients with various types of genital infection with N. gonorrhoeae, and of a small number of individuals with no history of gonorrhea.
(9) One configuration of hybridization probes detected the presence of TEM-1 in Neisseria gonorrhoeae (45 strains), Haemophilus spp., Escherichia coli, Shigella sonnei and Salmonella typhi.
(10) Infections with Chlamydia trachomatis, Neisseria gonorrhoeae and human papillomavirus (HPV) produced distinctive cytologic patterns similar to those seen in cervicovaginal smears from women.
(11) 38 of 39 strains (97%) of N. gonorrhoeae from Seattle patients with disseminated gonococcal infection were resistant to the complement-dependent bactericidal action of normal human sera.
(12) The prevalence of penicillin-resistant Neisseria gonorrhoeae in black men with acute urethritis at two clinics for sexually transmitted diseases in Port Elizabeth was assessed during the latter half of 1986.
(13) We surveyed the serum reactivities of 14 strains of N. gonorrhoeae and characterized each of their major OM components.
(14) The bacterial pathogen Streptococcus sanguis, a precursor to dental caries and a cause of bacterial endocarditis, yields IgA protease that cleaves only the Pro-Thr peptide bond in the left duplication, while the type 2 IgA proteases of the genital pathogen Neisseria gonorrhoeae and the respiratory pathogen Haemophilus influenzae cleave only the P-T bond in the right half.
(15) These facts are of interest when one tries to understand the discrepancy between high rates of discovery of bacteria during pregnancy and low rates of intra-amniotic infection by Neisseria gonorrhoeae.
(16) In five of the patients (1.4%) with vaginal discharge, Neisseria gonorrhoeae was isolated compared with one (0.4%) in women without vaginal discharge.
(17) A number of organisms, including Mycoplasma, group B Streptococcus, Bacteroides, Neisseria gonorrhoeae and Chlamydia trachomatis, have been isolated more frequently from patients in premature labor than from controls.
(18) The epidemiology of penicillin-susceptible Neisseria gonorrhoeae isolated in Taiwan from 1960 to 1990 is summarized.
(19) Specimens from genital, anorectal, and pharyngeal sites from 1671 men and 1419 women were cultured for Neisseria gonorrhoeae.
(20) On the basis of the results of these preliminary studies, LCR has the potential to be an accurate and rapid DNA probe assay for the detection of N. gonorrhoeae in clinical specimens.