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J Chemother
; 2(1): 37-9, 1990 Feb.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-2185346
ABSTRACT
A total of 729 asymptomatic men were screened for gonococcal urethritis with four techniques: culture of urethral specimens, culture of first-catch urine sediment (FCUS), an enzyme immunoassay method (Gonozyme, Abbot Laboratories) for detection of gonococcal antigen in urethral specimens (EIA-Sb) and first-catch urine sediment (EIA-FCUS). The positivity rates of the aforementioned techniques were 0.13%, 0%, 2.33%, and 0.82%. In view of reduction of time and patients' discomfort as well as the closely comparable positivity rate (p less than 0.05) associated with the use of the EIA-FCUS technique, the latter method appears to be the simplest, most practical and reliable diagnostic tool for screening asymptomatic gonococcal urethritis.