Treatment of women with uncomplicated gonococcal infection

The records of 121 women treated for endocervical infection with Neisseria gonorrhoeae during 1978 were examined. Ninety-six women had gonococcal cervictis alone, 16 had concomitant pharyngeal infection, three had concomitant anal infection, and six were infected at all three sites. Ninety-three women returned for examination after treatment; 71 were treated with 4.8 X 10(6) units of aqueous procaine penicillin G without probenecid. There was no therapeutic failure with this treatment at the endocervical (71 patients) or pharyngeal (16 patients) sites. One of six women who had anal infection was still infected one week after treatment. All of 17 women who received tetracycline orally for five days had negative cervical cultures after treatment. Six women with concomitant pharyngeal infection and two with concomitant anal infection also had negative cultures after treatment.