Oral ampicillin in gonorrhoea. Clinical evaluation.

Letter: Single-dose oral treatment of gonorrhoea.

“…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).…”

Ampicillin in the treatment of imprisoned patients with gonorrhoea.

“…of our cases by oral administration of two doses of 1 g. ampicillin. Eriksson (1970a) and Groth and Hallqvist (1970) obtained the same cure-rate in their patients who received the same dosage administered with a 5-hour interval.…”

Single-dose oral treatment of gonorrhea in men and women, using ampicillin alone and combined with probenecid.

“…The best results appeared to have followed treatment with ampicillin given in divided doses, a finding recently corroborated by Groth and Hallqvist (1970).…”

“…When we changed over to treating gonorrhoea with oral ampicillin in 1967, the few published reports on this type of therapy mostly lacked information on the Received for publication May 11, 1971 Address for reprints: Tietgensgade 31, Copenhagen, Denmark penicillin sensitivity of the gonococcal strains (Alergant, 1963;Marmell, Sills, Brown, and Prigot, 1964;Willcox, 1963Willcox, , 1964, and presented varying results derived from small numbers of cases. The best results appeared to have followed treatment with ampicillin given in divided doses, a finding recently corroborated by Groth and Hallqvist (1970).…”