Urethritis in Private Clinic; Comparative Analysis Between Two Periods of Time, 1990-1993 and 1999-2000

It seems that incidence and variety of the known sexually transmitted diseases (stds) in our country have changed in recent years. we performed this study to evaluate these changes. a total of 56 male patients who had clinical symptoms of urethritis were evaluated. also the relationship between urethritis and factors such as age, occupation, marital status, source and place of infection, and arbitrary consumption of antibiotics and results of susceptibility test for antibiotics against neisseria gonoirhoeae were examined. the final results of the evaluation were compared with the similar results of previous evaluation which was done 8 years ago among the same number of patients. in the recent study, 55.3% of infected people were in 21-30 age group. the source of infection in 11 cases (19.64%) was from foreign countries and in 45 cases (80.35%) it was from within the country. in 75% of cases (24 cases) urethritis was gonococcal (gu) and 25% (8 cases) were non-gonococcal urethritis (ngu). in gu, spectinomycin, ciprofloxacin, erythromycin and doxycyclin were effective in 100% of cases and co-trimoxasol (sulfamethoxazole-trimethoprim), tetracyclin, penicillin and ampicillin were effective in 50%, 33.3%, 23.5% and 16.6% of cases in vitro, respectively. in the evaluation 8 years ago, 64.58% (31 cases) were among 21-30 age group. in 13 cases (41%) the source of infection was from foreign countries and in 19 cases (59%) was from within of country; 85% (41 cases) were gu and 15% (7 cases) were ngu