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Culture of the gonococcus: a reliable gold standard?
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There are differences of opinion as to the value of cultures in the diagnosis of gonorrhoea. Personally I think them indispensable in the case of women…1
For most of this Journal's existence laboratory culture of Neisseria gonorrhoeae provided definitive identification. However, even at its apogee, a single culture lacked 100% sensitivity. Multiple sampling, from multiple sites, was necessary to diagnose, to exclude and …
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