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Diagnosis and treatment of gonorrhea (gonorrhoea, gonorrhoeae)

Traditional approaches to the diagnosis of gonorrhea have used direct smear or culture. Culture for Neisseria gonorrhoeae is typically performed on media such as chocolate (cooked sheep’s blood) agar, Thayer-Martin, or GC medium incubated in a 5% CO2 [...]

February 14, 2009 | Posted in Sexual Health | Read More »

Gonococcal infection in men

In men, urethritis is the most common syndrome (Sherrard and Barlow, 1996). Discharge or dysuria usually appears within 1 week of exposure, although as many as 5-10% of patients never have any signs or symptoms (McNagny et al., 1992). The discharge [...]