TY  - JOUR
T1  - GOnococcal urethritis in vietnam
AU  - Dang RM
Y1  - 1969/05/05
N1  - 10.1001/jama.1969.03160050121024
JO  - JAMA
SP  - 867
EP  - 867
VL  - 208
IS  - 5
N2  - 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.
SN  - 0098-7484
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.1969.03160050121024
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1969.03160050121024
ER  -