Editing Non-gonococcal urethritis (section)

{{short description|Inflammation of the urethra}}
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'''Nongonococcal urethritis''' ('''NGU''') is inflammation of the [[urethra]] that is not caused by [[gonorrhea|gonorrheal infection]].<ref name=Territo2023>{{cite journal |last1=Territo |first1=Heather |last2=Ashurst |first2=John V. |title=Nongonococcal Urethritis |journal=StatPearls |date=2023 |pmid=30571032 |url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK535411/ |publisher=StatPearls Publishing}}</ref>

For treatment purposes, doctors usually classify infectious urethritis in two categories: gonococcal urethritis, caused by gonorrhea, and nongonococcal urethritis (NGU).<ref name="pmid10028111">{{cite journal |vauthors=Burstein GR, Zenilman JM |title=Nongonococcal urethritis—a new paradigm |journal=Clin. Infect. Dis. |volume=28 |issue=Suppl 1 |pages=S66–73 |date=January 1999 |pmid=10028111 |doi=10.1086/514728|doi-access=free }}</ref>