Epidemiology of urethritis in Ibadan.

The British journal of venereal diseases ·Vol. 48 ·No. 2 ·1972-04-00 ·Pages 116-20

Osoba AO

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Keywords

Africa Africa South Of The Sahara Biology Developing Countries Diseases Drugs English Speaking Africa Epidemiologic Methods Examinations And Diagnoses Infections Laboratory Examinations And Diagnoses Nigeria Physical Examinations And Diagnoses Physiology Reproductive Tract Infections Research Methodology Sexually Transmitted Diseases Treatment Urogenital Effects Urogenital System Western Africa

MeSH Terms

Adolescent Adult Age Factors Child Child, Preschool Disease Reservoirs Female Gonorrhea/epidemiology Humans Male Mycoplasma/isolation & purification Nigeria Penicillin Resistance Self Medication Sex Factors Sex Work Urethritis/epidemiology

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Osoba A O

Other Abstracts

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This paper explores the frequency of different etiological agents causing urethritis among cases in the University College Hospital, Ibadan

the prevalence of gonococcal infections among housewives and prostitutes, and the incidence of isolation of T-strain mycoplasmas in the urethra of patients with nongonococcal urethritis (NGU) and a control group of Nigerian males. 6 groups of patients were studied

442 men with urethral discharge and/or urethritis

228 women with heavy vaginal discharge or consorts of male patients with symptoms

130 symptomless women aged 15-45

19 local prostitutes

93 men diagnosed as having NGU

and 65 men aged 15-44 presenting at the outpatient department of the hospital with no genitourinary symptoms or history of urethral discharge in the last 6 months. 69% of the 442 male and 62% of the 228 female cases were aged 25 and above. Among them, 147 of the males and 38 of the females had gonorrhea, 15 males and 44 females had Trichomonas vaginalis, 9 men and 63 women had Candida albicans, and 271 men had NGU. 47.1% of men were infected by casual consorts, 21% by prostitutes, and 20.4% by their wives. 11.4% of females were infected by casual consorts and 63.1% by their husbands. T-strain mycoplasmas were isolated from 18 (19.3%) of the 93 patients with NGU and from 13 (20%) of the 65 controls. Among the 130 symptomless women, 19 had Trichomonas vaginalis, 15 had Candida albicans, 7 had gonorrhea, and 89 had no abnormal findings. Among the 19 prostitutes, 3 each had gonorrhea and trichomonas vaginalis, none had Candida albicans, and there were no abnormal findings in 13. A likely reason for the prevailing patterns of infection is that self-treatment of symptomatic disease is widely practiced, broad spectrum antibiotics being freely available. All the prostitutes took regular prophylactic treatments.

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Article Info

Journal

The British journal of venereal diseases

Abbr.

Br J Vener Dis

ISSN

0007-134X

DOI

10.1136/sti.48.2.116

Published

1972-04-00

Pages

116-20

Language

English

Region

England

NLM ID

0421042

PMCID

PMC1048285

Subset

External Links

PubMed source DOI: 10.1136/sti.48.2.116 PMC Full Text

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