[Clinical observations on urethritis over the last eight years in Gifu City Hospital]

Clinical observations were made on patients with urethritis, syphilis, chancroid, genital herpes and venereal warts for the last eight years at Gifu City Hospital. The patients with urethritis, genital herpes and venereal warts tended to increase yearly, and the number of the cases with urethritis increased about 2.5 times in the eight years. Slightly more patients had nongonococcal urethritis than gonococcal urethritis excluding 1981. Of the patients with gonococcal urethritis seen between 1977 and 1979, 58% were treated with benzylpenicillin intramuscularly, and 43% of the patients seen between 1980 and 1984 were treated with a concomitant therapy of spectinomycin intramuscularly and minocycline or doxycycline orally. The cure rate for each treatment was 94% and 97%, respectively. Of the patients with nongonococcal urethritis seen between 1980 and 1984, 89% were treated with minocycline or doxycycline orally, and the cure rate was 97%. On the other hand, the cure rate was 43% for the treatment between 1977 and 1979, only 10% of whom had received treatment with minocycline or doxycycline.