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Sex Transm Infect 2007;83:79 doi:10.1136/sti.2007.025130
  • Editorial

Screening asymptomatic men for non-specific urethritis

  1. J C D Ross
  1. Correspondence to:
 Professor J C D Ross
 Whittall Street Clinic, Whittall Street, Birmingham B4 6DH, UK; jonathan.ross{at}hobtpct.nhs.uk
  • Accepted 5 February 2007

For a clinical guideline to be of use, it needs to make clear recommendations for practice based on the available evidence. But what should be recommended when the evidence is finely balanced, limited and/or contradictory? An example of this is whether or not men without symptoms should be screened for non-specific urethritis (NSU)—a decision faced by virtually all clinicians working in sexually transmitted infection (STI) clinics every day. In many …

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