Letter: Elimination of gonorrhoea.

Abstract

82 British Journal of Venereal Diseases each group; and the figures for treatment response in each group should approximate more closely than the results show (see Table). For this reason the simple end-point of clear urine after one week was used in the trial to assess the effectiveness of therapy.It is therefore on the comparative nature of these results that we have based our opinion of the doubtful efficacy of the one-dose treatment.Our results with procaine penicillin are approximately in line with those found by other workers using this drug. Our results with ampicillin do not agree with those of several workers, notably Groth and Hallqvist (1970), Willcox and others (1973), Cobbold and others (1973), and Jersild and Svendsen (1973).Taking our overall experience, therefore, it appears that in 36 patients treated with ampicillin the re-treatmnent rate was 58 per cent., whereas in those treated with procaine penicillin it was 26 per cent.Yours faithfully,