Gram staining has been suggested to be as effective a diagnostic tool as PCR in one primary research report regarding gonococcal urethritis.
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Non-gonococcal urethritis ( NGU ) is diagnosed if a person with urethritis has no signs of gonorrhea bacteria on laboratory tests.
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In Canada in 2004 doxycycline was considered a first-line treatment for chlamydia and non-gonococcal urethritis and with cefixime for uncomplicated gonorrhea.
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"Mycoplasma genitalium " was discovered in 1980 from two male patients suffering from non-gonococcal urethritis at pelvic inflammation in women.
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For treatment purposes, doctors usually classify infectious urethritis in two categories : gonococcal urethritis, caused by gonorrhea, and nongonococcal urethritis ( NGU ).
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"Aseptic meningitis ", like non-gonococcal urethritis, non-Hodgkin lymphoma and atypical pneumonia, merely states what a condition is not, not what a condition is.
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"Is the Gonococcus Resistant to Penicillin ? : A Review of the Treatment of 130 Cases of Acute Gonococcal Urethritis in the Male . " " Journal of the National Medical Association ", 59, 2 ( 1967 ) : 100 104.