[Chlamydia trachomatis infection among sexual partners of the patients with non-gonococcal urethritis].
During the past 3 years, 30 sexual partners including 18 married couples and 12 extramarital sexual pairs whose male partners were diagnosed as having non-gonococcal urethritis were examined for Chlamydia trachomatis infection. Twenty-three of the 30 couples (76.7%) had identical results either positive or negative for Chlamydia trachomatis infection. All 3 male partners of the 3 pairs who had the non-identical results for Chlamydia trachomatis infection, male negative and female positive, had history of urethritis or prostatitis. Fourteen of the 17 female partners (82.4%) who were positive for Chlamydia trachomatis, had no subjective complaints. The above findings suggest the necessity of treating the female sexual partners of the non-gonococcal urethritis patients irrespective of their symptom.
Osada
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Department of Urology, St. Marianna University School of Medicine.
Yamagoe
M
M
Inoue
T
T
Hirano
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A
D000328:Adult; D002690:Chlamydia Infections / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000382:microbiology / Q000635:transmission*; D002692:Chlamydia trachomatis / Q000302:isolation & purification; D005260:Female; D006069:Gonorrhea; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012747:Sexual Partners; D012749:Sexually Transmitted Diseases / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000209:etiology / Q000382:microbiology; D014526:Urethritis / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000209:etiology* / Q000635:transmission