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VENEREAL DISEASE – CONCLUSION

When smears are taken no gonococci are found. In about half the cases, organisms such as Chlamydia or Mycoplasma may be grown on culture but in the rest, no causative organisms can be demonstrated.

This particular infection seems to generate more anxiety than does gonorrhoea.

This may be because the symptoms are slow to develop and slow to clear and may recur despite treatment.

Sometimes this infection develops during a constant sexual relationship where there has been no outside sexual contact by either partner for several months or even years.

There are usually no symptoms in women but the sexual contacts of infected men may have evidence of vaginal or cervical infection and sometimes the Chlamydia or Mycoplasma organisms can be demonstrated.

Penicillin is ineffective but the tetracycline drugs will clear it. Recurrences are common, even without further exposure.

One complication of NGU seen more in men than women is Reiter’s disease.

This involves urethritis associated with conjunctivitis or iritis, which is inflammation of the deeper tissues of the eye, and arthritis or tendon inflammation. Reiter’s disease requires the use of the anti-inflammatory drugs used for the rheumatic disorders and may take months or years to clear.

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