Balanitis caused by group B streptococcus
| Autor: | Charles M. Lakin, David A. Lucks, Frank R. Venezio |
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| Rok vydání: | 1986 |
| Předmět: |
Adult
Male medicine.medical_specialty medicine.drug_class Urology Antibiotics Erythromycin medicine.disease_cause Group B Streptococcus agalactiae Recurrence Streptococcal Infections Balanitis medicine Humans business.industry Streptococcus Cellulitis medicine.disease Dermatology Penicillin medicine.anatomical_structure Immunology Vagina Female business medicine.drug |
| Zdroj: | The Journal of urology. 135(5) |
| ISSN: | 0022-5347 |
| Popis: | The Lancefield group B streptococcus is a cause of serious genitourinary tract infections in peripartum women. However, it rarely has been implicated as a pathogen in genital infections of male subjects. We report severe recurrent balanitis owing to group B streptococcus in a sexually active young man. Group B streptococcus was cultured from the vagina of his asymptomatic consort on 1 occasion. It is postulated that penile cellulitis developed by invasion of group B streptococcus through a traumatic abrasion acquired during sexual intercourse. The preferred antibiotic treatment for balanitis caused by group B streptococcus is penicillin or erythromycin. Prevention of additional episodes may be difficult, since therapy of the female carrier state with antibiotics has not provided long-term eradication of group B streptococcus. |
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