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

Table 3 Characteristics of the seven asymptomatic urethral Neisseria gonorrhoeae infection cases attending Melbourne Sexual Health Centre, 2017–2018

ID	Age group	Country of birth	Number of days between last sexual contact and clinic presentation	Number of sexual partners in the preceding 3 months	Condom use in the preceding 3 months	Sex with sex worker in the preceding 12 months	Sex overseas in the preceding 12 months, country	Previous gonorrhoea infection	Known gonorrhoea contact	Diagnostic pathway	Urethral symptoms	Non-urethral symptoms	Urethral chlamydia infection
1	20–24	Australia	Unknown	5	Sometimes	Unknown	Yes, Germany	No	No	NAAT on the first visit, positive culture in a subsequent visit	No	No	No
2	35–39	Australia	21	1	Sometimes	No	No	Yes	Yes	NAAT, no culture performed	No	No	No
3	60–64	Australia	Unknown	1	Sometimes	No	No	No	No	NAAT, no urethral culture performed, positive eye culture	No	Eye with purulent discharge	No
4	15–19	Australia	Unknown	25	Sometimes	Unknown	Unknown	No	No	NAAT on the first visit, positive culture in a subsequent visit	No	No	No
5	20–24	Australia	14	3	Always	Unknown	No	No	Yes	NAAT, no culture performed	Intermittent dysuria, testicular pain and discharge 3 months ago	No	Yes
6	40–44	Australia	7	3	Sometimes	Unknown	No	No	Yes	NAAT, no culture performed	No	No	No
7	25–29	England	14	3	Sometimes	No	No	No	No	NAAT on the first visit, positive culture in a subsequent visit	Not on the first visit, discharge in the subsequent visit	No	Yes

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