[Recognition of the problem and significance of genitourinary leptotrichosis]

Out of a total of 54,236 outpatient women treated from 1975 up to December 1983, there were 515 cases (relative value 0,010) of leptotrichosis diagnosed on the basis of the analysis of the vaginal smear stained by the Gram and Pappenheim method. Out of this number, there were 664 pregnant women in whom leptotrichosis was diagnosed in 8 cases (relative value o.12). In the urine samples of 5 married couples, the wives being ill with leptotrichosis, the disease was diagnosed in 3 cases, while in men in none. The question is whether leptotrichosis is only a genital or genito-urinary infection in women possibly also in men.