gonococcal infection

This is a systemic condition which superficially resembles the problems associated with disseminated gonococcal infection in that the joints and skin are involved.

Untreated gonococcal infections result in miscarriages, preterm births and perinatal deaths.

Updated recommended treatment regimens for gonococcal infections and associated conditions-United States, April 2007.

Symptoms of gonorrhea that has spread to sites other than the genitals (disseminated gonococcal infection) include:

Therefore, the anatomic site of gonococcal infection should be reported consistently as part of routine notifiable disease surveillance in all jurisdictions.

Moving on to ophthalmia neonatorum, a gonococcal infection in infants, he achieved the first recorded cure with penicillin, on November 25, 1930.

Apart from gonococcal infection, certain other bacteria are sometimes found in the urethra and may be responsible for the signs and symptoms of NGU.

A higher than normal risk of getting bladder cancer.2 Complications of disseminated gonococcal infection (DGI) include:

The local complications of gonococcal infection can then be predicted from a knowledge of the local anatomy, with appropriate allowance being made for the differences between the sexes.

Single injection of ceftriaxone 50 mg/kg IM or IV should be given to infants born to mothers with untreated gonococcal infection.

A prostitute may not provide services while having herpes infection, Dermatophytosis, pubic lice, gonococcal infection, chlamydia, scabies, leprosy or syphilis.

The other symptoms that may give clues to the presence of gonococcal infection in the woman are mostly produced when complications, such as involvement of the fallopian tubes, have set in.

This discomfort on passing urine can be related directly to the gonococcal infection, but again like the vaginal discharge, there are no distinguishing features to give clues that the gonococcus is responsible.

Herpes simplex virus infection (cold sores) can easily be transferred from the mouth to the genitalia, and since doctors have started looking for them, cases of gonococcal infection in the throat have been found in increasing numbers.

All young, sexually active men should be screened routinely for chlamydial and gonococcal infections, which is increasingly feasible and acceptable because of new diagnostic tests that allow the use of urine as a specimen for screening.

Gonococcemia (also known as "Arthritis-dermatosis syndrome" and "Disseminated gonococcal infection") is a condition characterized by a hemorrhagic vesiculopustular eruption, bouts of fever, and arthralgia or actual arthritis of one or several joints.