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Urethritis is an inflammation of the urethra, the channel carrying urine from the bladder. In gonorrhea victims, it is caused by the gonococcus bacterium. But in a majority of cases of NGU, no gonococcus can be found-hence the name nongonococcal urethritis. Though the cause of NGU cannot always be determined, researchers have in recent years identified a culprit in about half the cases: a tiny bacterium called Chlamydia trachomatis, the same microbe that causes trachoma, an eye disease...
Massive Medication. Although VD researchers are still arguing over whether some strains of the gonococcus are now resistant to penicillin, cure is almost certain if the treatment is intensive enough. To give the germs no chance. PHS experts recommend minimal doses of 1,200,000 to 2,400,000 units of penicillin for simple cases of gonorrhea and as much as 20 million units a day for such serious complications as gonorrheal arthritis and heart infection. For the few patients who cannot tolerate penicillin, several other antibiotics are almost as good...
...learn to defeat man's antibiotic weapons. The varieties of bacteria which have not yet shown resistance to antibiotics probably never will learn to do so, said Internist Dowling. These, fortunately, include most of the bacteria which cause acute infections: the pneumococcus, more than half the streptococci, meningococcus, gonococcus and the spirochete of syphilis...
Ever since penicillin's potency against the gonococcus was discovered, health experts have hoped it would eventually provide a quick treatment that a doctor could give in his office. Hitherto gonorrhea patients have had to be hospitalized (expensive) or treated repeatedly (difficult because many are too irresponsible to keep appointments...
...various types, including streptococcic septicemia (blood poisoning), streptococcic sore throat, peritonitis, puerperal sepsis (childbed fever), etc. Meningitis, gonorrhea and certain types of pneumonia have also been conquered. So far sulfanilamide has had no remarkable effect on diseases produced by bacteria other than the streptococcus, men-ingococcus, pneumococcus, or gonococcus. ¶ Although there have been only ten fatalities in 4,000 cases,** with "no correlation between these reactions and the dosage," sulfanilamide often produces such unpleasant by-effects as nausea and vomiting, dizziness, rash and fever. These disappear with the disease...