title: Urethritis in men at the Genito-Urinary Medicine Clinic Kuala Lumpur Hospital.
abstract: The clinical features and aetiology of 100 consecutive symptomatic heterosexual male patients with urethritis were studied from March 1994 to August 1994 in the Genito-Urinary Medicine (GUM) Clinic, Kuala Lumpur Hospital. Gonococcal urethritis (GU) was found to be more common (53%) than non-gonococcal urethritis(47%). All patients with GU confirmed microbiologically had clinically evident urethral discharge. Almost half (41%) of the patients with GU developed post-gonococcal urethritis (PGU). The most common organism isolated in PGU was Ureaplasma urealyticum (37%) whilst only 4% had both Chlamydia trachomatis and Ureaplasma urealyticum. Of the 47% of patients with non-gonococcal urethritis (NGU), 50% had no microorganism isolated, 32% had Ureaplasma urealyticum, 7% Chlamydia trachomatis and 11% both Chlamydia trachomatis and Ureaplasma urealyticum.
authors.affiliation: Genito-Urinary Medicine Clinic, Department of Dermatology, Hospital Kuala Lumpur, Jalan Pahang, 50586 Kuala Lumpur.
authors.forename: H B
authors.initials: HB
authors.lastname: Gangaram
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Akbal
authors.forename: A T
authors.initials: AT
authors.lastname: Gan
authors.forename: S H
authors.initials: SH
authors.lastname: Hussein
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Mangalam
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Rohani
authors.forename: P F
authors.initials: PF
authors.lastname: Lai
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D006785:Hospitals, University / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D008296:Malaysia / Q000453:epidemiology; D008297:Male; D010044:Outpatient Clinics, Hospital / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D014526:Urethritis / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000209:etiology* / Q000382:microbiology