Diseases with urethritis and cervicitis

Question 1

What other conditions are associated with chlamydia trachomatis?

Answer 1

Reiter’s syndrome

Possibly erythema multiforme like lesions

Question 2

Gonorrhea etiology

Answer 2

neisseria gonorrhoeae is a gram negative coccus in pairs

Question 3

Gonorrhea in men

Answer 3

3-5 day incubation period with dysuria and purulent urethral discharge

Question 4

Gonorrhea in women

Answer 4

often asymptomatic but can develop cervicitis and urethritis or PID

Question 5

Disseminated Gonoccocal infection

Answer 5

AKA arthritis-Dermatitis syndrome

- triad of dermatitis, tenosynovitis, and migratory polyarthritis (often involving knee/hands/wrists)

Question 6

Skin lesions in disseminated gonorrhea

Answer 6

On the dorsal hands, ankles, and toes thought to be microabscesses 2/2 embolization of the organisms
- painless non pruritic tiny red papules/petechiae that can become necrotic in center