title: Urethritis: an underestimated clinical variant of genital herpes in men?
abstract: Two men had a first clinical episode of genital herpes presenting as nongonococcal urethritis in the absence of any penile lesions. Data on the etiologic function of herpes simplex in patients with nongonococcal urethritis are scarce and conflicting. Considering our cases, the large amount of nongonococcal urethritis of unknown origin, and the high frequency of unrecognized genital herpes, herpes simplex virus may be a significant etiologic agent of nongonococcal urethritis and warrants necessary laboratory investigations in patients with clear mucoid urethral discharge.
authors.affiliation: Outpatient Clinic of Dermatology, Triemli Hospital Zurich, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Stephan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Lautenschlager
authors.forename: Alfred
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Eichmann
mesh_terms: D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006558:Herpes Genitalis / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000821:virology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012075:Remission, Spontaneous; D018570:Risk Assessment; D018139:Simplexvirus / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D014526:Urethritis / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000821:virology*