“Women who have gonorrhea can develop serious complications if the infection is untreated.”

“Genital gonorrhea infections in men and nonpregnant women may be treated with a third-generation cephalosporin or fluoroquinolone antibiotic.”

“Ascending infection in women leads to the major complication of gonorrhea, pelvic inflammatory disease, a common cause of female infertility.”

“Laboratory tests are carried out for gonococcus and sometimes trichomonas and chlamydia, depending on the technology available.”

“I think most doctors would empirically give antibiotics for both staph and gonococcus, but apparently for this exam, that would be wrong.”

“Ordinarily, no attempt is made to identify any but the tubercle bacillus and the gonococcus.”

“Doctors routinely put antibiotic drops or ointment in newborns' eyes to prevent conjunctivitis caused by gonorrhoea bacteria.”

“But another important cause of bartholinitis is gonorrhoea, which is a sexually transmitted infection.”

“Some of the most common are chlamydia, gonorrhoea, human papilloma virus and genital herpes.”

“Does it mean that no gonococci were present in the patient or that none were present in the sample submitted to the laboratory for culture?”

“Bacterial cell morphology was examined using transmission electron microscopy of thin sections and whole mounts of gonococci.”

“Pelvic inflammatory disease, is caused most frequently by sexually transmitted chlamydia or gonococci.”