urethritis/carbohydrate

A small, fastidious gram-negative anaerobe was isolated from men with non-gonococcal urethritis (NGU). The isolates are described as NGU-associated anaerobes because they were extremely rare in men with urethritis other than NGU, and in asymptomatic men. They showed twitching motility, had many

Purified membranes were prepared from seven human T-mycoplasmas of which four are laboratory strains and three isolates from patients with nonspecific urethritis. The T-mycoplasmas were resistant to osmotic shock and sonication. Membranes were obtained only after lysing most of the T-mycoplasmas by

A maltose-negative strain of Neisseria meningitidis isolated from a male patient with urethritis was initially identified as a gonococcus on the basis of carbohydrate utilization tests. Additional investigations initiated because of atypical colony morphology and a negative superoxol reaction showed

BACKGROUND Ciprofloxacin is commonly used in Poland specially for the treatment of urinary tract infections including urethritis. Patients are often treated without pathogen identification and antimicrobial resistance tests. Neisseria gonorrhoeae infection is one of the most common causes of