Treatment of Non-Gonococcal Urethritis

Non-Gonococcal Urethritis: AN INVESTIGATION TO DETERMINE FACTORS IN THE HOST INFLUENCING RESPONSE TO TREATMENT AND RECURRENCE OF SYMPTOMS

“…Kershaw and Lindsay (1956), following a study of 378 cases, considered NGU to be a problem of management rather than of repeated courses of antibiotics. Prebble (1957) considered antibiotic therapy an unnecessary and unjustifiable expense, and claimed that 85 per cent. of cases could be cured in a few days with irrigations of 1/4000 mercury oxycyanide.…”

Cotrimoxazole in the treatment of non-gonococcal urethritis

“…After the war, streptomycin was discovered. Although this then new antibiotic could by itself apparently cure only 40-60 % or fewer of cases (3,16,17) it was soon found that a combination of one gramme of streptomycin by injection with the tradi• tional sulphonamide course by mouth gave results superior to those generally achieved with either drug alone and cure rates varying between 70-85 % could thus be obtained (6,9,12,16,17).…”

Doxycycline treatment of nongonococcal urethritis with special reference to T-strain mycoplasmas.

“…Cxytetracycline 70-91 Harkness, 1953;Willcox, 1953;Willcox, 1955a;Gartman and Leibovitz, 1955;Willcox, 1957;Doyle, Gill, and Laird, 1957;Jelinek, 1957;Morton andRead, 1957 Fowler, 1958. Chlortetracycline 59-81 Harkness, 1953;Willcox, 1953;Jensen, 1954;Willcox, 1955a;Gartman and Leibovitz, 1955;Willcox, 1957;Morton and Read, 1957 Willcox, 1955b; Prebble, 1957;Willcox, 1957;Grimble, 1968;Csonka and Spitzer, 1969. Chloramphenicol 31-78 Harkness, 1953;Willcox, 1953;Gartman and Leibovitz, 1955;Willcox, 1957;Morton and Read, 1957. Streptomycin 38-70 Harkness, 1953;Willcox, 1953;Gartman and Leibovitz, 1955;Willcox, 1957;Doyle and others, 1957;Jelinek, 1957;Morton and Read, 1957;Fowler, 1958. Penicillin 41-60 Willcox, 1953; Gartman and Leibovitz, 1955;Willcox, 1957;Morton and Morrison, 1963 Babione and Graham, 1952;Willcox, 1953;Willcox, 1957;Doyle and others, 1957;Jelinek, 1957;Morton and Read, 1957;Fowler, 1958. Sigmamycin 77 Oates, 1958 the study.…”