Normal smears | Urethritis and normal wet smear | Urethritis and cervicitis | Cervicitis and normal urethral smear | UND and WND | Symptoms count (%) | Bacterial vaginosis | |||||
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Urethral smear | Urethral smear | Urethral smear | Urethral smear | ||||||||
<5* | UND | 5–10* | >10* | 5–10* | >10* | <5* | UND | Count (%) | Count (%) | ||
UND, microscopic examination of urethral smear not done; WND, microscopic examination of vaginal wet smear not done; Ng, Neisseria gonorrhoeae; Ct, Chlamydia trachomatis; Mg, Mycoplasma genitalium. | |||||||||||
*PMNL/HPF in methylene blue stained smears. | |||||||||||
†Wet smears not done in one patient with Ct and in two patients in the group with no Ng infection or NGU. | |||||||||||
‡Wet smear not done in one patient. | |||||||||||
C trachomatis pos (n = 41) | 11† | 1 | 2 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 1 | 4 | 13 (32) | 12/36 (33) |
M genitalium pos (n = 22) | 11 | 0 | 0 | 2‡ | 0 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 5 (23) | 5/22 (23) |
Mg and Ct pos (n = 4) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 (50) | 2/4 (50) |
Urethritis and/or cervicitis, | 0 | 0 | 18 | 37 | 8 | 26 | 65 | 1 | 0 | 65 (42) | 30/155 (19) |
negative tests (n = 155) | |||||||||||
The rest of attendees (n = 243) | 237† | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 53 (22) | 26/243 (11) |
Total (n = 465) | 259 | 3 | 20 | 47 | 11 | 35 | 80 | 2 | 8 | 138 (30) | 73/456 (16) |