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Abstract
A 2½ year gonorrhea screening program in Chicago showed 7.5 per cent of women tested
to be positive for Neisseria gonorrhoeae organisms with a single cervical culture. Young patients, unmarried patients, and
black patients had the highest attack rates. Over 98 per cent of those with positive
cultures were treated, and this program has probably contributed to a decline in reported
gonorrhea morbidity in the first 6 months of 1971. In another group of 4,816 women
seen at a venereal disease clinic, 24.4 per cent were positive at the cervix, rectum,
or both. The addition of rectal tests to cervical tests is productive of many cases
that would otherwise be missed. Three million units procaine penicillin G with 2 per
cent aluminum monostearate (PAM) intramuscularly is inadequate treatment for gonorrhea
in the woman.
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Article info
Publication history
Accepted:
October 12,
1971
Received:
September 1,
1971
Footnotes
☆The program described was supported by Contract Grant PH 21-68-2045 with the United States Public Health Service.
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© 1972 Published by Elsevier Inc.
