Recent micturition does not affect the detection of urethral gonorrhoea.
In 202 men with urethral gonorrhoea (176 symptomatic and 26 asymptomatic) who had modified Thayer-Martin cultures taken before and within five minutes after micturition there was complete agreement between results of the two cultures. Micturition did, however, temporarily eliminate the discharge in 100 (56.8%) and make interpretation of Gram-stained smears more laborious.
D006069:Gonorrhea / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D013997:Time Factors; D014521:Urethra / Q000382:microbiology; D014522:Urethral Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis*; D014554:Urination