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Published in final edited form as: Sex Transm Dis. 2021 Dec 1;48(12):S151–S156. doi: 10.1097/OLQ.0000000000001540

TABLE 3.

Association Between Symptoms and N. gonorrhoeae-Positive Culture Specimens

Anatomic Site	Symptomatic Infections, n(%)		N. gonorrhoeae-Positive Culture Specimens and Culture Recovery from Symptomatic Infections, n(CR^a)		Asymptomatic Infections, n(%)		N. gonorrhoeae-Positive Culture Specimens and Culture Recovery from Asymptomatic Infections, n(CR^a)		χ², p-value^b
All Sites of Infection	7300	(54.1%)	6078	(83.3%)	6194	(45.9%)	2270	(36.7%)	3084	<0.0001
Urethral	5933	(91.1%)	5469	(92.2%)	582	(8.9%)	458	(78.7%)	115.7	<0.0001
Endocervical	228	(62.8%)	137	(61.0%)	135	(37.2%)	85	(63.0%)	0.19	0.67, ns^c
Vaginal	69	(51.9%)	38	(55.1%)	64	(48.1%)	25	(39.1%)	2.8	0.09, ns
Rectal	648	(23.1%)	307	(47.4%)	2157	(76.9%)	810	(37.6%)	19.7	<0.0001
Pharyngeal	422	(11.5%)	127	(30.1%)	3256	(88.5%)	892	(27.4%)	1.23	0.27, ns

^a,

Culture Recovery

^b,

Chi-squared test of association with Yates’ correction for culture specimen positivity and symptomatic infection

^c,

not significant