title: [Treatment of female gonorrhea. Therapeutic results with pivampicillin-probenecid and penicillin procaine-probenecid combinations].
abstract: A controlled trial of the relative efficacies of procaine penicillin G and pivampicillin for single dose treatment of uncomplicated gonorrhea in female was performed. Confirmation of the disease was obtained by bacteriological isolation of Neisseria gonorrhea from uretral, cervical or rectal exudates inoculated in suitable media. Based upon their previous experience, the authors used probenecid, along with both antibiotics, as a way of increasing the effectiveness of these drugs. Twentynine patients received probenecid 1 g. followed by oral pivampicillin, in a single dose of 1,4 g. Therapeutical results were evaluated in twenty-four, with clinical and bacteriological cure of eighteen. The other group included fifty-two patients treated with probenecid 1 g. followed by a single intramuscular dose of 3.000.000 U. of procaine penicillin G. The therapeutical results in the last group were evaluated in forty patients, with clinical and bacteriological cure of thirty-three. According to the above mentioned results procaine penicillin G seems to offer a slightly superior probability of cure.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D004341:Drug Evaluation; D004359:Drug Therapy, Combination; D005260:Female; D006069:Gonorrhea / Q000188:drug therapy*; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D010402:Penicillin G Procaine / Q000627:therapeutic use; D010917:Pivampicillin / Q000627:therapeutic use; D011339:Probenecid / Q000627:therapeutic use; D013607:Tablets
chemical_list: D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents; D013607:Tablets; D010917:Pivampicillin; D010402:Penicillin G Procaine; D011339:Probenecid
vernacular_title: O tratamento de gonorreia feminina. Resultados terapêuticos com as associações pivampicillina-probenecid e penicilina procaína-probenecid