Non-gonococcal urethritis

"NGU" redirects here. For other uses, see NGU (disambiguation).
Non-gonococcal urethritis
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Nongonococcal urethritis (NGU) is inflammation of the urethra that is not caused by gonorrheal infection.[1]

For treatment purposes, doctors usually classify infectious urethritis in two categories: gonococcal urethritis, caused by gonorrhea, and nongonococcal urethritis (NGU).[2]

  1. ^ Territo, Heather; Ashurst, John V. (2023). "Nongonococcal Urethritis". StatPearls. StatPearls Publishing. PMID 30571032.
  2. ^ Burstein GR, Zenilman JM (January 1999). "Nongonococcal urethritis—a new paradigm". Clin. Infect. Dis. 28 (Suppl 1): S66–73. doi:10.1086/514728. PMID 10028111.