Arthritis associated with gonorrhoea.

Polyarthritis in Western Nigeria. 3. Other forms of polyarthritis.

“…Bacteriological findings at the time of presentation at UCH, Ibadan, are therefore an unreliable means of differentiation between nonspecific and gonococcal infections. A rapid response to antibiotic treatment is a characteristic finding in cases of proven gonococcal arthritis (Partain, Cathcart, and Cohen, 1968). This criterion was therefore used to differentiate patients in the present series into cases of probable gonococcal polyarthritis and cases of probable Reiter's syndrome (Table I, opposite).…”

Gonococcal arthritis--a common rarity.

“…It was suggested that the term 'gonococcal arthritis' should be reserved for cases in which Neisseria gonorrhoeae was actually isolated from the joint fluid (New Engl.Jt. Med., 1968;Partain, Cathcart, and Cohen, 1968)-the term 'presumptive gonococcal arthritis' being applied to cases with the typical clinical course and antibiotic response in which the gonococcus was cultured from some other site. Kirsner and Hess (1969) and other workers pointed out that with greater diagnostic accuracy linked to the awareness of Reiter's syndrome there has been a reduction in the frequency with which gonococcal arthritis is diagnosed in males, but how much of this is due to early cure of symptomatic urethral gonorrhoea in the heterosexual male is unknown.…”