The prevalence of gonococcal infection of the rectum and pharynx in 239 consecutive women with gonorrhea presenting as named contacts was 47% and 10%, respectively. In 2% of all patients the rectum and pharynx were each the sole sites of infection. Treatment failure occurred in three patients given a single dose of aqueous procaine penicillin 2.4 megaunits intramuscularly, two of whom had rectal infections; no treatment failures occurred in patients with pharyngeal infections. The incidence of rectal gonorrhea significantly increased with the duration of infection (P < 0.001). This suggests that autoinoculation from infected vaginal material is of major importance in the transmission of gonococcal infection to the rectum.
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Kinghorn, G. R., & Rashid, S. (1979). Prevalence of rectal and pharyngeal infection in women with gonorrhea in Sheffield. British Journal of Venereal Diseases, 55(6), 408–410. https://doi.org/10.1136/sti.55.6.408
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