(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.
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.