Clinical presentation of asymptomatic and symptomatic heterosexual men who tested positive for urethral gonorrhoea at a sexual health clinic in Melbourne, Australia

Table 2 Clinical characteristics of urethral Neisseria gonorrhoeae infections among heterosexual men attending Melbourne Sexual Health Centre, 2017–2018

Characteristics	*n/N*	Percent (95% CI)
History
Urethral symptoms reported on the day of the test
Typical discharge	93/116	80.2 (71.9–86.5)
Atypical symptoms	16/116	13.8 (8.6–21.3)
No symptoms	7/116	6.0 (2.7–12.1)
Investigations^a
Gonorrhoea culture positive from the urethral swab
Typical discharge	90/91	98.9 (93.4–100)
Atypical symptoms	6/12	50 (25.4–74.6)
No symptoms	3/3	100 (47.0–100)
Urine chlamydia positive
Typical discharge	20/89	22.5 (15.0–32.3)
Atypical symptoms	5/16	31.3 (13.9–55.9)
No symptoms	2/7	28.6 (7.6–64.8)

^a The denominator of the percentage is the total of specimens in which the investigation was performed. CI confidence interval, NAAT nucleic acid amplification test

ISSN: 1471-2334