Sartaj Naeem, Khattak M N.
Audit of diagnosis of Gonococcal infection in a Genito Urinary Medicine (GUM) clinic.
J Postgrad Med Inst Jan ;17(1):3-6.

Objectives: To study the efficacy of Gram stained smear in screening cases of gonorrhea and comparing its sensitivity with culture of N gonorrhea. Material And Methods: Patients with gram smear positive or culture positive for N gonorrhea from urogenital swabs were retrospectively analysed. Results: In this study of 94 male and 49 females patients. The sensitivity of Gram stained smear and culture of N gonorrhea were 92.56% and 98.94% respectively in male patient and 53.03% and 94.23% respectively in female patients. Conclusions: Gram stain has a high sensitivity in detecting gonococcal infection in males while in females a considerably low sensitivity of gram stain necessitates the use of culture in diagnosing gonorrhea.

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