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| lifeskim:mentions | |
| pubmed:issue |
7
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| pubmed:dateCreated |
1991-11-29
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| pubmed:abstractText |
The history and the results of clinical investigations in 74 patients with and 262 men without urethral Chlamydia (C.) trachomatis infection were evaluated: symptoms such as dysuria, discharge and/or burning/itching in the genital region were reported by 77% (n = 57) of the patients with an infection and 63.4% (n = 166) of the men without an infection. Upon clinical investigation, discharge was found in 55.4% (n = 41) of the chlamydia-positive patients and in 47.7% (n = 125) of the chlamydia-negative men. Only when yellow, whitish yellow and clear discharge were distinguished from one another was the difference between the two groups of patients (56.1% versus 12%) significant. Microscopic signs of urethritis, i.e. significant numbers of polymorphonuclear leukocytes (greater than 4 per high-power field and oil immersion) were detectable in the smears of 59.5% (n = 44) of the chlamydia-positive patients, in contrast to 15.6% (n = 41) in the smears of chlamydia-negative men. Overall, 67.6% (n = 50) of the patients with a C. trachomatis infection reported symptoms in the anamnesis combined with signs of urethritis upon clinical and microscopic investigation. There were 9.5% (n = 7) of the patients who either mentioned symptoms or showed clinical signs, and 13.5% (n = 10) who neither mentioned symptoms nor showed clinical signs. These results indicate that microbiological detection of the infectious agent is obligatory for diagnosis of urethral infection with C. trachomatis.
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| pubmed:language |
ger
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| pubmed:journal | |
| pubmed:citationSubset |
IM
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| pubmed:status |
MEDLINE
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| pubmed:month |
Jul
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| pubmed:issn |
0017-8470
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| pubmed:author | |
| pubmed:issnType |
Print
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| pubmed:volume |
42
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| pubmed:owner |
NLM
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| pubmed:authorsComplete |
Y
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| pubmed:pagination |
434-8
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| pubmed:dateRevised |
2006-11-15
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| pubmed:meshHeading |
pubmed-meshheading:1938397-Bacteriological Techniques,
pubmed-meshheading:1938397-Chlamydia Infections,
pubmed-meshheading:1938397-Chlamydia trachomatis,
pubmed-meshheading:1938397-Diagnosis, Differential,
pubmed-meshheading:1938397-Humans,
pubmed-meshheading:1938397-Leukocyte Count,
pubmed-meshheading:1938397-Male,
pubmed-meshheading:1938397-Urethritis
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| pubmed:year |
1991
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| pubmed:articleTitle |
[The value of symptoms and findings in urethral Chlamydia trachomatis infection].
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| pubmed:affiliation |
Universitäts-Hautklinik, Heidelberg.
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| pubmed:publicationType |
Journal Article,
English Abstract
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