Undiagnosed Gonorrhea

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Failure to diagnose Gonorrhea

No early symptoms: This condition may have no early symptoms, and thus fail to be diagnosed in its early stages.

Vague or mild symptoms: Gonorrhea may have only vague symptoms in early stages, or otherwise mild symptoms, leading to a delayed diagnosis.

Undiagnosed prevalence of Gonorrhea:

estimated 400,000 cases (CDC/NIAID based on 800,000 estimates with about 400,000 reported)

Undiagnosed prevalence rate:

approx 1 in 679 or 0.15% or 400,000 people in USA [about data]

Medical news about undiagnosed Gonorrhea:

The following medical news items are relevant to nondiagnosis of Gonorrhea:

Undiagnosed Complications of Gonorrhea

As part of Gonorrhea diagnosis, consider whether any of these Gonorrhea complications may have been overlooked:

Pelvic inflammatory disease - 10-40% of untreated cases get PID
Gonococcal PID (type of Pelvic Inflammatory Disease)
Peritonitis - not common
Mother-infant transmission (see Birth symptoms) - baby can get infected during delivery.
Infant eye infections (see Eye symptoms) - from maternal transmission.
More complications »

Undiagnosed Diseases

Read our premium medical health articles on topics related to undiagnosed conditions in general, not necessarily specific to Gonorrhea:

About undiagnosed conditions:

One possible misdiagnosis is the failure to correctly diagnose Gonorrhea leading to a person remaining with undiagnosed Gonorrhea. Any condition can potentially be missed and stay undiagnosed. For a general overview of diseases that are often undiagnosed, see Failure to Diagnose or Under-Diagnosed Diseases.

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