TY - JOUR T1 - Single-dose treatment of gonorrhoea with cotrimoxazole. A report on 1,223 cases. JF - The British Journal of Venereal Diseases JO - Br J Vener Dis SP - 179 LP - 182 DO - 10.1136/sti.51.3.179 VL - 51 IS - 3 AU - G Rahim Y1 - 1975/06/01 UR - http://sti.bmj.com/content/51/3/179.abstract N2 - 1,223 ambulant patients with gonorrhoea were each treated with a single dose of eight tablets of cotrimoxazole. 1,069 patients were followed up (794 males and 275 females). Of these, only 46 (4%) failed to respond. Cotrimoxazole in the dosage used was well tolerated by all the patients, with very few side-effects. There was clear evidence that cotrimoxazole did not mask concomitant syphilitic infections; neither did it produce a gonococcal carrier state. The incidence of post-gonococcal non-specific urethritis was 6 per cent. At present cotrimoxazole seems to be the most useful alternative to penicillin in the treatment of gonorrhoea. ER -