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Richard, who had been married for 2 years, attends a Sexual Health clinic. For the preceding 2 days he has noticed pain on passing urine and a yellow discharge from the tip of his penis. He has no other symptoms.

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    The prevalence of hepatitis B infection is high (>5% of the population) in South-East Asia, including the Philippines.

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    An exception may be the treatment of sexual contacts of person with chlamydial infection who can not be persuaded to attend a sexual health clinic (see Case 6).

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McMillan, A. (2009). Urethral Discharge (2). In: Sexually Transmissible Infections in Clinical Practice. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84882-557-4_7

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