Advances and prospects in the study of certain diseases due to infections by subgroup A Chlamydia.

Jones, Barrie R.

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“…TRIC and LGV agents, have been considered in the discussion of non-specific genital infections (cf. Jones, 1972). Chlamydia has been found in about 40% of patients with non-gonorrhoea1 urethritis, but infrequently (5%) in healthy males (Richmond, Hilton & Clarke, 1972).…”

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Search for Urogenital Tract Infections in Patients with Symptoms of Prostatitis: Studies on Aerobic and Strictly Anaerobic Bacteria, Mycoplasmas, Fungi, Trichomonads and Viruses

Mårdh

Colleen

1975

Scandinavian Journal of Urology and Nephrology

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Seventy-nine patients with symptoms of nonacute prostatitis and 20 healthy volunteers were examined for uro-genital tract infection with bacteria, mycoplasmas, fungi, trichomonads and viruses. No differences in the results of the bacterial cultures were found between the patients and the controls. In only a few cases were established urinary tract pathogens found, but in no instance were these findings reproducible in later specimens. The cultures of the expressed prostatic fluids and the samples of semen gave no information of the occurrence of bacteria over and above that obtainable from examination of the urethral specimens. Significant bacteriuria was not found in any of the patients. Though Neisseria gonorrhoeae could not be isolated from any of the subjects, immunofluorescent studies revealed such organisms in seminal fluid in 8% of the patients. Nine of the patients had 1 to 3 years been considered successfully treated for gonorrhoea. Five of these nine patients were still found to harbour gonococci, as judged from the immunofluorescent studies. Corynebacterium vaginale was recovered in an equally low frequency (5%) from the patients and the volunteers. There was no significant difference in the incidence of T-mycoplasmas between the patients (46%) and the controls (35%), while Mycoplasma hominis was only found in the patients (10%). Trichomonas vaginalis could not be detected in wet smears of expressed prostatic fluid in any of the subjects, but could be cultured from one such specimen. Metacycline treatment (performed according the double blind cross-over technique) was studied for effects on the bacterial flora. In about 10% of the patients, an earlier not observed relative dominance of gram-negative rods was found on the cultures made after the therapy. Candida albicans was only isolated from the patients. It was found more often after (24%) than before the (15%) treatment. Complement-fixing antibodies to N. gonorrhoeae, cytomegalovirus and Chlamydia were found in 10, 19, and 33% of the patients, respectively. The corresponding figures for the healthy males were 0, 20 and 5%.

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Section: Uro-genital Tract Infections 13mentioning

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Search for Urogenital Tract Infections in Patients with Symptoms of Prostatitis: Studies on Aerobic and Strictly Anaerobic Bacteria, Mycoplasmas, Fungi, Trichomonads and Viruses

Mårdh

Colleen

1975

Scandinavian Journal of Urology and Nephrology

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“…These organisms belong ro sub-group A, i.e. with glycogen-con1aining inclusions (7) and which are sensitive to sulphona mides (8). Sulphonamides are well knO\\ n to be effecthe in lymphogranuloma venereum due 10 an organism of this group (l 5).…”

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Cotrimoxazole in the treatment of non-gonococcal urethritis

Willcox¹,

Sparrow²

1974

Acta Derm Venereol

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Persistence of treponemes after treatment.

Dunlop¹

1972

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Hence a considerable proportion of "non-specific" genital infection is related to Chlamydia. The new developments will enable us to begin to define how big this proportion is; to study control groups; to determine if any of the Chlamydia are non-pathogenic in the eye, genital tract, or elsewhere; and to study further special forms of disease such as Reiter's disease, abacterial pyuria, proctitis, and salpingitis. Thus there is evidence already that salpingitis commonly occurs in the mothers of babies suffering from ophthalmia neonatorum due to TRIC agent.'03 130 The culture of specimens obtained at laparoscopy should show whether Chlamydia is present in the affected fallopian tubes or not. Such studies will lay the foundations for defined assessment of treatment for disease due to Chlamydia.It would be surprising if there were no other agent concerned as a cause of NSU; therefore it will be of particular interest to test for other agents those patients in whom efficient tests (cell culture and immunological studies) for Chlamydia have given negative results.

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Advances and prospects in the study of certain diseases due to infections by subgroup A Chlamydia.

Cited by 4 publications

References 13 publications

Search for Urogenital Tract Infections in Patients with Symptoms of Prostatitis: Studies on Aerobic and Strictly Anaerobic Bacteria, Mycoplasmas, Fungi, Trichomonads and Viruses

Search for Urogenital Tract Infections in Patients with Symptoms of Prostatitis: Studies on Aerobic and Strictly Anaerobic Bacteria, Mycoplasmas, Fungi, Trichomonads and Viruses

Cotrimoxazole in the treatment of non-gonococcal urethritis

Persistence of treponemes after treatment.

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