Preliminary Report on a Mass Program for Detection of Gonorrhea

Microbial flora of the external os of the premenopausal cervix.

“…in such patients (Zackler, Brolnitsky, and Orbach, 1970). Cervical culturettes from the two cases in our study associated with suspicious findings in Gram stained smears were placed on Thayer-Martin media with infusion agar as a base, but Neisseria gonorrhoeae was cultured from neither.…”

Sexually transmitted diseases. Extract from the Annual Report of the Chief Medical Officer to the Department of Health and Social Security for the year 1970.

“…New diagnostic cultural techniques recently introduced as screening tests in the United States have led to the identification of gonorrhoea in over 5 per cent. of patients attending private, public, or non-profit making clinics in Chicago (Zackler, Brolnitsky, and Orbach, 1970). The total of 53,525 cases included 33 of vulvovaginitis compared with 82 in 1969, and 59 of gonococcal ophthalmia of the newborn compared with 45 in 1969.…”