non-specific infection

Treatment of non-specific infection in women is the same as for men, although some clinics do not believe that female contacts should be treated.

The causative organism, like that responsible for many cases of non-specific infection, is a member of the chlamydia group.

The final and perhaps most important complication of non-specific infection is one that is more often iatrogenic (doctor-induced) in origin.

It is impossible to define an optimal treatment period but it should obviously be long enough to eliminate the one main cause of non-specific infection, chlamydia.

The type-A chlamydiae include the sub-groups responsible for trachoma, non-specific infection, and lympho-granuloma venereum.

If gonorrhoea is the commonest venereal disease, then non-specific infection is the commonest sexually transmitted disease - the difference being one of definition.

Regarding pathologies, the three most common conditions observed in the skeletal remains analysed from necropolis 6 were dental calculus, joint disease and non-specific infection, and this is typical for a rural, non-industrialised population.

Although the discharge of either may vary from a barely discernible mucus to a gross, thick, profuse, and purulent exudate, the discharge of non-specific infection is usually lighter in texture, quantity, and colour.