What's the difference between gonococcus and gonorrhea?
Gonococcus
Definition:
(n.) A vegetable microorganism of the genus Micrococcus, occurring in the secretion in gonorrhea. It is believed by some to constitute the cause of this disease.
Example Sentences:
(1) Direct testing, using colonies of N. gonorrhoeae mixed with the Phadebact gonococcus test reagents, produced noninterpretable results in many cases.
(2) Although Neisseria gonorrhoeae can use haem as the sole exogenous iron source for growth in vitro, the mechanism of haem-iron uptake in the gonococcus is unknown.
(3) ), and the Phadebact Gonococcus coagglutination test (Pharmacia Diagnostics, Piscataway, N.J.) to identify pathogenic Neisseria spp.
(4) Transformation data indicated that MS11 does not produce enough restriction activity to block plasmid transformation in the gonococcus, even though restriction activity could be demonstrated in E. coli containing the cloned gene.
(5) Although antibodies raised to the pili protein from a given strain of gonococcus cross-reacted poorly or not at all with each of the other strains tested, the amino-terminal sequences were all identical.
(6) In cases of gonococcus, systemic antibiotic medication is required.
(7) The author concludes there is no need to procure VDRL tests on all patients with suspected gonorrhea, nor do gonococcus cultures on all patients with suspected PID.
(8) If released during gonococcal infections, similar soluble PG fragments might influence the consequences of host-gonococcus interactions.
(9) In addition to natural resistance a postinfection-acquired immunity to the gonococcus was demonstrated.
(10) Phase variation in both the gonococcus and E. coli was recA-independent, occurred at similar rates, and involved insertions or deletions of one or more repeat units.
(11) These results support the hypothesis that the absence in N. gonorrhoeae of plasmids carrying entire and functional TnA transposons cannot be ascribed to incompatibility between the genetic element and the host, but rather to a barrier to introduction of foreign DNA into gonococcus.
(12) Follow-up studies identified 5 cases of treatment failure; 2 of Gonococcus and 3 of Chlamydia, and detected 3 cases of Chlamydia which had not been identified initially.
(13) The eradication rate (efficacy rate) of gonococcus following a 3-day therapy was 96.2% (38.9% excellent cure rate) in male patients and 83.3% (8.3%) in female patients.
(14) I included the heat stable agglutinogens of the gonococcus, and antibodies of these could be raised by immunization of rabbits with the Fr.
(15) The two organisms may behave in clinically indistinguishable fashion and probably justify a more cautious approach to the clinical syndromes we have considered the inviolate domain of the gonococcus.
(16) Morphology and fermentative reactions of revertant strains were identical to those of the parent gonococcus.
(17) Several procedures have been suggested for providing adequate environmental conditions for the survival and growth of the gonococcus.
(18) The results showed how ineffective the previous treatment was in eliminating the gonococcus from the genital tract.
(19) In patients with endocervical gonorrhea, the gonococcus was isolated from the fallopian tube in 38.5 per cent of cases.
(20) The Phadebact gonococcus test was performed on 314 bacterial isolates to compare the coagglutination technique with the Minitek system for the confirmation of Neisseria gonorrhoeae.
Gonorrhea
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Gonorrhoea
Example Sentences:
(1) One hundred consecutive patients with uncomplicated gonorrhea were treated with 800 mg of cefixime.
(2) 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.
(3) The paired cervical and rectal isolates from one patient with uncomplicated gonorrhea differed only with respect to a requirement for hypoxanthine.
(4) To evaluate the association of genital herpes, genital warts, gonorrhea, and trichomoniasis with the occurrence of subsequent tubal infertility, 321 women who had tubal infertility were interviewed concerning their history of these sexually transmitted diseases (STD).
(5) It was concluded that in treatment of gonorrhea kanamycin should be administered intramuscularly in a dose of 1 g every 12 hours or in a dose of 0.5 g every 6 hours, the course dose being 3 g.
(6) We examined age-, sex-, and race-specific gonorrhea cases and rates to determine whether the national trend has been occurring in all population groups.
(7) Gonorrhea is the most prevalent communicable disease in the United States and the incidence of anorectal involvement is high.
(8) The risk of tubal pregnancy in women who reported a history of gonorrhea, relative to that in other women, was 5.1.
(9) While sexually active adults, who carry Neisseria gonorrhea may serve as a reservoir of infection even when asymptomatic, there are few data documenting the frequency of the asymptomatic carrier state in adolescent males.
(10) Ninety-seven asymptomatic 16-21-year-old sexually active adolescent males were evaluated for gonorrhea and chlamydia by culture, chlamydia enzyme immunoassay, and an analysis of a random urine sample for pyuria using centrifuged urine and urine cytometer.
(11) Gonorrhea was present in 25 (4.7%) of the 532 children, and other sexually transmitted diseases were identified in nine children.
(12) Research into the role of Chlamydia trachomatis in both NGU and salpingitis (the most frequent type of complicated gonorrhea for women) is underway.
(13) The attack rate for patients having an episode of gonorrhea in the 12-month period immediately preceding the trial bore a direct relation to the outcome of therapy.
(14) The most frequent systemic complication of acute, untreated gonorrhea is disseminated infection, which develops in 0.5 to 3 percent of the more than 700,000 Americans infected with Neisseria gonorrhoeae each year.
(15) The majority of STD cases reported involved chlamydia and gonorrhea, followed by herpes.
(16) In the case of a young man with suspected or proven gonorrhea or a young female outpatient with pelvic inflammatory disease, only 19% and 20% respectively stated that they would prescribe a regimen appropriate for both penicillinase-producing Neisseria gonorrhoeae and C. trachomatis.
(17) Qat is also believed to have medicinal value, being used locally to treat influenza, gonorrhea and asthma.
(18) Since the early 1980s the incidence of gonorrhea has been declining worldwide, as well as in Israel.
(19) Fifty percent of Neisseria Gonorrhea cultured were penicillinase producers.
(20) For 4 months in 1989, health care practitioners screened 179 pregnant Vietnamese refugees who visited the antenatal booking clinic in Hong Kong for syphilis and gonorrhea.