RT Journal
A1 Dang RM
T1 GOnococcal urethritis in vietnam
JF JAMA
JO JAMA
YR 1969
FD May 5
VO 208
IS 5
SP 867
OP 867
DO 10.1001/jama.1969.03160050121024
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1969.03160050121024
AB To the Editor:— 
    The article on gonococcal urethritis in males in Vietnam (207:946, 1969) could not be considered applicable to gonorrhea in the United States, for sociological and epidemiological reasons. The number of patients infected with relatively penicillin-resistant gonorrhea was not determined. There was a two-week period between the initial diagnosis and onset of treatment and the retesting for infection. In the patients receiving medication orally, as with tetracycline, there was no confirmation that the patients took the medication as prescribed. The patients who were "laboratory positive" after the two-week period were labeled "treatment failures." It would appear possible that most of these were actually cases of reinfection.