Epidemiology of sexually transmitted Chlamydia trachomatis infections in male patients.

868 male urethritis patients were studied for the presence of chlamydiae in the 1981-1986 period. 36% of NGU, 31.3% of gonococcal urethritis and 58.

Q fever urban cases in Romania.

Q fever urban sporadic cases in Romania in the 1981-87 period are reviewed as concerns their incidence, seasonality and epidemiological data. Urban cases represented 76.8% as against 23.

Q fever epidemiology in Roumania.

A review on Q fever epidemiologic aspects in Roumania from the first case report in 1947 up to the actual cases is presented. It includes the dynamics of the number of cases, features of epidemics, results of surveys on slaughterhouse workers and laboratory-acquired cases, results of serologic surveys in domestic animals, and of wild life studies. Special attention is given to the sporadic character of the present cases in Roumania with emphasis on the seasonal repartition of cases, occupation of subjects, and urban versus rural proportion of cases.

Q fever laboratory diagnostic methods used in Roumania.

The methods used presently in Roumania for Q fever laboratory diagnosis are presented. They include Coxiella (C.) burnetii isolation procedures, Q fever serologic tests, and the skin test.

Serotypes of Ureaplasma urealyticum isolated from patients with nongonococcal urethritis and gonorrhea and from asymptomatic urethral carriers.

Ureaplasma urealyticum strains isolated from urethral specimens of 112 patients with nongonococcal urethritis, 17 with gonorrhea, and 33 asymptomatic carriers (controls) were tested by the growth-inhibition test with standard ureaplasma antisera (serotypes 1-8). Cases with more than one serotype (two to four types) were encountered in 36.6% of patients with nongonococcal urethritis, 29.

Ureaplasma urealyticum serotypes isolated from cases of female sterility.

Ureaplasma strains isolated from vagina, cervix, endometrium or urine of 45 infertile women (121 strains) and 54 fertile women (145 strains) were tested using the growth inhibition test with standard Ureaplasma sera (types 1 through 8). Serotypes 3, 4 and 6 were more frequently recovered. Predominance of serotype 3 (35.

Q-fever soluble vaccine effects in Coxiella burneti sensitized humans.

A Q-fever soluble vaccine (phase I C. burnetitrichloro-acetic acid extract) was administered in a single dose to 28 persons formerly immunized with the same soluble vaccine one year before and to other 28 persons which had naturally been infected with C. burneti one or two years ago.