[Criteria of recovery from gonorrhea]

A total of 563 case histories of gonorrhea patients and 218 ones of patients with gonorrhea recurrences are analyzed. 86.7-87.5% of recurrences were recorded in the first week after treatment for acute or chronic condition (before the provocation test). The relapses develop earlier after the treatment for acute or subacute gonorrhea than for the chronic condition, and are most common between the third and seventh days after therapy. The share of patients timely consulting the doctors is in inverse proportion with the time of the check-ups (the criterion of cure being 96.2%, the first control 84.1%, the second one 62%). The validity of cure should better be checked up on the fifth-sixth days after therapy, and not on days 7-10. Patients with complicated urogenital diseases (prostatitis, orchiepididymitis, infiltrative urethritis) should be followed up after the first check-up.