Saturday, 4 June 2016

PRO/EDR> Urethritis, meningococcal - USA: (OH,MI) heterosex. men, oral sex trans, non-gr.

Meningitis - Neisseria, Other Human Disease -- United States
Bazan JA, Peterson AS, Kirkcaldy RD, et al.
_Neisseria meningitidis_ (Nm) urogenital infections, although less common than infections caused by _Neisseria gonorrhoeae_ (Ng), have been associated with urethritis, cervicitis, proctitis, and pelvic inflammatory disease. Nm can appear similar to Ng on Gram stain analysis (gram-negative intracellular diplococci) (1-5). Because Nm colonizes the nasopharynx, men who receive oral sex (fellatio) can acquire urethral Nm infections (1,3,5). This

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