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nongonococcal urethritis

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nongonococcal urethritis

[¦nän‚gän·ə′kä·kəl ‚yu̇r·ə′thrīd·əs]
(medicine)
Human urethral inflammation not associated with common bacterial pathogens; thought to be caused by bacteria of the Bedsonia group. Abbreviated NGU.
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The Federal Ministry of Health and Social Services (1996) reported the National average prevalence rates for the various STIs such as Non-gonococcal Urethritis (NGU) as 26.3%; post-pubertal gonorrhoea, 18.03%; trichomoniasis, 9.8%; candidiasis 9.62%; chancroid, 4.28% and primary syphilis, 2.2%.
Patterns of Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIS) reported among students in a federal university in midwestern Nigeria
Most of the common sexually transmitted diseases, such as gonococcal and non-gonococcal urethritis, primary syphilis and trichomoniasis, can be treated in this way, as can genital infections which are not sexually transmitted, such as bacterial vaginosis and genital tract candidiasis [5,12].
A comparative study of single-dose treatment of chancroid using thiamphenicol versus azithromycin
genitalium can also cause non-gonococcal urethritis in men apart from C.
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