Chapter 26

Question 1

What genus of bacteria is the causative agent of Gonorrhea?

Answer 1

Neisseria gonorrhoeae.

Question 2

What are signs and symptoms of Gonorrhea?

Answer 2

• Men: Painful urination, discharge of pus, and epididymitis.
• Women: Fewer symptoms; pelvic inflammatory disease (PID).
  If left untreated, it may disseminate and become systemic, causing endocarditis, meningitis, arthritis, and ophthalmia neonatorum (infant blindness due to a gonorrheal infection of the eyes).

Question 3

Which bacterial pathogen causes NGU?

Answer 3

• Chlamydia trachomatis,
• Mycoplasma genitalium
• Ureaplasma urealyticum.

Question 4

Which genus of bacteria causes syphilis?

Answer 4

Treponema pallidum

Question 5

What is the name of the sore caused by syphilis? What causes this sore to form?

Answer 5

• Chancre
• Immune response that responds to the chancre

Question 6

What happens to the human body after many years of infection with syphilis?

Answer 6

Secondary stage: Skin and mucosal rashes.
Latent period: No symptoms.
Tertiary stage: Cell-mediated immune reactions, leading to conditions such as gummatous syphilis, cardiovascular syphilis, neurosyphilis, and congenital syphilis with neurological damage to the fetus.

Question 7

How are genital warts spread?

Answer 7

Genital warts, caused by human papillomaviruses (HPV), are spread through sexual contact.

Question 8

What does the abbreviation HPV stand for?

Answer 8

Human papillomaviruses.

Question 9

What causes most genital warts infections to go away?

Answer 9

Most genital warts infections caused by HPV go away with time, typically within two years.
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Treatment via removal of warts; podofilox and imiquimod

Question 10

What is a distinct sign of trichomoniasis?

Answer 10

A distinct sign of trichomoniasis is irritation and a profuse, frothy, greenish-yellow, foul odor discharge.

Question 11

Why do women get STIs more than men?

Answer 11

• Moist enviroment
• Internal structures
• Thin membranes