Open AccessChlamydial Pharyngitis?
Author(s) -
William Bowie,
E. Russell Alexander,
King K. Holmes
Publication year - 1977
Publication title -
sexually transmitted diseases
Language(s) - Uncategorized
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.507
H-Index - 105
eISSN - 1537-4521
pISSN - 0148-5717
DOI - 10.1097/00007435-197710000-00004
Subject(s) - sore throat , medicine , urethritis , pharyngitis , chlamydia trachomatis , throat , chlamydia , gynecology , immunology , surgery
Among 118 women who were sexual contacts of men with nongonococcal urethritis, the practice of fellatio correlated with symptoms of a sore throat. Oropharyngeal cultures for Chlamydia trachomatis were negative in all women, including 11 women who practiced fellatio and whose partners were known to have nongonococcal urethritis due to C. trachomatis. The study does not support a major role for C. trachomatis as a cause of sore throat in women who practice fellatio.