(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.
Syphilis
Definition:
(n.) The pox, or venereal disease; a chronic, specific, infectious disease, usually communicated by sexual intercourse or by hereditary transmission, and occurring in three stages known as primary, secondary, and tertiary syphilis. See under Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary.
Example Sentences:
(1) Sera of 375 blood donors which were seropositive for syphilis were examined for antibodies against Entamoeba histolytica.
(2) The dramatic nationwide increase of primary and secondary syphilis in women has precipitated a dramatic rise in congenital syphilis.
(3) These structures were also found in the blood or spinal fluid (SF) of asymptomatic patients with both positive and negative serological tests for syphilis.
(4) These findings provide a framework for future investigations of our congenital syphilis model.
(5) Several months later, as the patient experienced relapses with cerebellar and spinal cord involvement, falsely positive tests for syphilis were found and an antibiotic treatment was given.
(6) The expression of such secondary and tertiary syphilis is commonly masked and distorted by the long-term effects of subcurative doses of antibiotics; in fact, late latent and tertiary syphilis produce symptoms and immunosuppression similar to the profile of AIDS.
(7) The CSF-TPHA test was positive in four out of 12 children, and the CSF-VDRL test was negative in all the children with active congenital syphilis.
(8) Binding of aCL in syphilis to solid phase CL was competitively inhibited by either addition of the cofactor or fluid phase CL.
(9) Serological tests for hepatitis A (HA) and B (HB), syphilis and HIV were performed on blood samples from 3 groups of homosexual men: 220 and 124 asymptomatic men being investigated in 1978 and 1980 respectively and another 98 men suffering from HA during the winter 1979-80.
(10) To evaluate the effect of ceftriaxone in treating latent syphilis or asymptomatic neurosyphilis in patients infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).
(11) Lyme borreliosis has in common features with another spirochetosis, syphilis, e.g.
(12) Compared to cases in the previous year, infectious syphilis cases among prostitutes and seasonal farm workers decreased 51.3 per cent and 26.8 per cent, respectively.
(13) A clinically manifest primary or secondary syphilis that develops during pregnancy has become an extremely rare occurrence.
(14) Beside being responsible for positivity of the VDRL test in the context of syphilis, APAB (false serological reactions for syphilis, LA, anticardiolipin antibodies) have also been detected in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and lupus-like syndromes, after intake of certain drugs, and, more rarely, in a number of diseases (table I).
(15) A protocol outline for diagnosis and therapy of syphilis is included in the discussion.
(16) Cryptococcosis occurred in association with toxoplasmosis in one patient who developed syphilis in the follow-up; oligoclonal distribution of gamma globulins occurred in this case.
(17) However, the treatment failed to prevent infection in the infant, and the baby had developed signs of congenital syphilis at 10 weeks of age.
(18) The protocol was devised by first evaluating a range of kits in London using a battery of African and non-African sera and then field testing 1455 sera in Malaŵi, which included 184 sera from leprosy patients and 60 sera from syphilis patients to check for cross-reactivity.
(19) Individual sequelae are most significnat when congenital syphilis is allowed to develop due to delays in treating the pregnant woman or newborn child.
(20) There is a suggestion of a plateau having occurred in adult and congenital syphilis, possibly caused by saturation effect on the high-risk population.