Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ptsfa.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!zehntel!dual!ptsfa!rob From: rob@ptsfa.UUCP (Rob Bernardo) Newsgroups: net.med Subject: Re: Reiter's Syndrome (and chlamydia) Message-ID: <503@ptsfa.UUCP> Date: Fri, 8-Mar-85 22:45:55 EST Article-I.D.: ptsfa.503 Posted: Fri Mar 8 22:45:55 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 11-Mar-85 07:17:38 EST References: <1640@pur-phy.UUCP> <497@ptsfa.UUCP> <1243@amdahl.UUCP> Reply-To: rob@ptsfa.UUCP (Rob Bernardo) Distribution: net Organization: Pacific Bell, San Francisco Lines: 50 Summary: In article <1243@amdahl.UUCP> ems@amdahl.UUCP (ems) writes: >> > >> >As I understand it, Reiter's Syndrome is a disease of the connective >> >tissue of muscles. ... > ... request for more info ... > > >> According to the Merck manual ... >> >> "REITER'S SYNDROME >> "Arthritis associated with nonbacterial urethritis and >> conjunctivitis, usually seen in adult males following recent >> sexual exposure; >> ... >> >> ... Tetracycline may control the urethritis. > >I thought chlamydia was a bacteria. Yet here we have Merck >saying that Reiters is associated with 'nonbacterial >urethritis'; and proposing that tetracycline may control it... >Am I reading this wrong or what? Is chlamydia a bacteria or a virus? >Can tetracycline do anything against viruses? > >And what is this chlamydia stuff anyway. I'd never heard of it >before, and now its in magazine articles and on the net. Is this >the newest fad bug? > I double checked the Merck manual and that's indeed what it says. Chlamydia IS a bacteria. It often is the cause of urethritis. Over the past few years I have gotten non-gonococchal urethritis many times. My doctor, when finding a negative result from the gonorhea culture has just presumed it is chlamydia without further confirmation since culturing it is difficult; the bacteria stay in the cells and culturing for it would involve getting infected cells into the culture medium or something like that. [I am not a medical person, just an informed hypochondriac.] -- Rob Bernardo, Pacific Bell, San Francisco, California {ihnp4,ucbvax,cbosgd,decwrl,amd70,fortune,zehntel}!dual!ptsfa!rob _^__ ~/ \_.\ _ ~/ \_\ ~/ \_________~/ ~/ /\ /\ _/ \ / \ _/ \ _/ \ \ /