PHARYNGEAL INFECTION WITH NEISSERIA-GONORRHOEAE

During 1978, 156 patients were treated for pharyngeal infection with Neisseria gonorrhoeae; 115 (74%) returned for a post-treatment culture. Aqueous procaine penicillin G (4.8 × 106 units) given im with (19 patients) or without (64 patients) orally administered ampicillin for four days was successful therapy in 86% of instances. All seven patients who received tetracycline hydrochloride orally for five days had negative posttreatment cultures, as did nine of 12 patients who received 2.0 g (four patients) or 4.0 g (eight patients) of spectinomycin hydrochloride, im. Concurrent anogenital infection with N. gonorrhoeae was documented for about 60% of the patients, and, with one exception, was eradicated by these treatment schedules. © The American Venereal Disease Association.