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Short-term treatment of gonorrhoea with intramuscular and oral forms of trimethoprim-sulphamethoxazole.
  1. A Lassus,
  2. O V Renkonen

    Abstract

    Fifty-nine male patients and 41 female patients with uncomplicated gonorrhoea were treated with an intramuscular dose of 1600 mg sulphamethoxazole plus 320 mg trimethoprim followed by an oral dose of 2400 mg sulphamethoxazole plus 480 mg trimethoprim 12 hours later. Forty-nine out of 52 male patients and 37 out of 38 female patients who were re-examined were cured. One of the men probably had a reinfection.

    https://doi.org/10.1136/sti.55.1.24

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