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E3- STIs Flashcards

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What STIs are ulcerative?

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  • Syphilis
  • Chancroid
  • Genital hepes
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What STIs are nonulceative?

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  • Gonorrhea
  • Trichomoniasis
  • Chlamydia
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What genus includes nonpathogenic species that are normal flora on mucosal surfaces, species that cause non-STD diseases, and species that produce STD diseases?

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Treptonema

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How are non-STD treptonema infections spread?

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Person-to-person via direct contact (occur in developing countries)

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What is the etiology of syphilis?

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Treptonema pallidum

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Is Treptonema pallidum (syphilis) gram positive/negative? What shape?

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Gram negative spirillum

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What type of pathogen is Treptonema pallidum (syphilis)?

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Obligate intracellular parasite (requires mammalian host)

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What are Treptonema pallidum’s (syphilis) virulence factors?

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  • Outer membrane proteins (promote adherence to host cells)
  • Hyaluronidase (facilitates perivascular infiltration)
  • Fibronectin coat (antiphagocytic)
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What are Treptonema pallidum (syphilis) lesions primarily the result of?

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The host’s inflammatory response

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How is Treptonema pallidum (syphilis) transmitted?

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Usually via direct sexual contact with a person who has active primary or secondary lesions
Can also occur via:
-Lesion near mouth
-Needle sharing
-Transplacental
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Treptonema pallidum enters into subepithelial tissues and undergoes local multiplication and dissemination to ___ via ___.

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Nearby lymph nodes via circulation

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What is the name of the primary/principal lesion associated with Treptonema pallidum (syphilis)?

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Chancre

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Chancres typically begin as a what?

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Papule

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How long does it take an untreated primary Treptonema pallidum (syphilis) lesion to heal?

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3-8 weeks with fibrosis

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What is the disease progression of Treptonema pallidum (syphilis)?

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  • Primary syphilis
  • Dormancy period
  • Secondary syphilis
  • Latent syphilis
  • Spontaneous cure, seropositive w/o disease, or tertiary syphilis
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What is typically seen clinically with secondary syphilis?

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  • Development of superficial lesion of high infectivity (Maculopapular rash)
  • Mucosal warty lesions (condylomata lata)
  • Immune complexes
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What is typically seen clinically with latent syphilis?

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Absense of clinical signs and symptoms

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What is considered an “early” latency syphilis?

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Within 1 year of infection

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What is considered an “late” latency syphilis?

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More than 1 year after infection

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What is typically seen clinically with tertiary syphilis?

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  • Neurosyphilis
  • Cardiovascular syphilis
  • Granulomata (gummas)
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When does tertiary syphilis manifest?

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5-30 years after infection

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What is the typical progression of congenital syphilis?

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Most infants are born apparently healthy and develop symptoms at ~3 weeks of age

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What does earlier onset of congenital syphilis symptoms suggest?

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Poor prognosis

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What is the clinicial presentation of congenital syphilis?

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  • Maculopapular cutaneous lesions
  • Nasal obstruction with mucoid discharge (infectious)
  • Osteitis of nasal bones
  • Neurosyphilis
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What is Hutchinson’s Triad and what disease is it associated with?

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Congenital syphilis

  • Notched incisors
  • Interstitial keratitis
  • 8th nerve deafness
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What should every genital lesion be considered until proven otherwise?

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Syphilis

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27
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How is syphilis dx?

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  • Darkfield microscopy

- Serology (nontreponemal vs. treponemal)

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What syphilis serological test is non-specific and used for screening?

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Nontreponemal test

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What syphilis serological test is specific for antibodies and used for confirmation?

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Treponemal test

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30
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What is the causative agent of gonorrhea?

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Neisseria gonrrhoeae

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Is Neisseria gonrrhoeae gram positive/negative? What shape?

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Gram negative diplococcus

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What are the virulence factors of Neisseria gonrrhoeae? (5)

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  • Antigenic variation of pili
  • Nonpiliated phase variants
  • Porin protein
  • IgA protease
  • Plasmid and chromosome mediated resistance to abx
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What age group has the highest incidence of Neisseria gonrrhoeae?

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Adolescents

34
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What is the function of antigenic and nonpiliated phase variations of pili in N. gonrrhoeae?

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To confuse the hosts immune system so we don’t made antibodies

35
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What is the function of porin proteins?

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Aid in attachment

36
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Who are major reservoirs for Neisseria gonrrhoeae?

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Asymptomatic patients

37
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What is the first step of Neisseria gonrrhoeae infection?

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Attachment to the epithelium via pili and surface proteins

38
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How does Neisseria gonrrhoeae cause injury to cells?

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Releases Lipooligosaccharide and peptidoglycan

39
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What kind of discharge is seen with Neisseria gonrrhoeae infections in males?

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Thick, mucopurulent discharge

40
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What are three complications of Neisseria gonrrhoeae in females?

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  • Acute salpingitis
  • Pelvic inflammatory disease
  • Disseminated Gonococcal infection
41
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What can present with bacteremia, fever rash, endocarditis, and/or meningitis?

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Disseminated Gonococcal infection

42
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What is the most common presentation of Disseminated Gonococcal infection?

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Purulent arthritis

43
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How is Neisseria gonrrhoeae dx?

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  • Gram stain

- Culture (Nucleic acid amplification/PCR) *GOLD STANDARD

44
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What are 3 causative agents of nongonococcal urethritis?

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  • Chlamydia trachomatis
  • Mycoplsma spp
  • Ureaplasma urealyticum
45
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What type of pathogen is Chlamydia trachomatis?

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Obligate intracellular bacteria (requires mammalian host)

46
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Is Chlamydia trachomatis gram positive/negative?

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Gram negative

47
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What is the infectious form of Chlamydia trachomatis?

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Elementary body

48
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What is the fragile intracellular form of Chlamydia trachomatis?

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Reticulate body

49
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What age group has the highest incidence of Chlamydia trachomatis infections?

50
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Ascesion of Chlamydia trachomatis in females can lead to what?

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  • Acute salpingitis

- Pelvic inflammatory disease

51
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Infants born to mothers infected with chlamydia usually present with what?

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Inclusion conjunctivitis

52
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What are the possible presentations of a Chlamydia trachomatis infection? (7)

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-Salpingitis
-PID
-Inclusion conjunctivitis (newborns)
-Cervicitis
-Urethritis
-Lymphogramuloma venereum
-Epididymitis (watery discharge)
“SPICULE”

53
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Certain toxin-producing strains of Chlamydia trachomatis may lead to what?

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Chronic inflammation

54
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How is Chlamydia trachomatis dx?

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  • Isolation in cell culture = GOLD STANDARD

- NAAT

55
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What is the etiology of Trichomoniasis?

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Trichomonas vaginalis

56
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What type of pathogen is Trichomonas vaginalis?

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  • Flagellated protozoan
  • Extracellular anaerobe
  • Exists only as a trophozoite
57
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What is the typical presentation of Trichomonas vaginalis in males?

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  • Usually asymptomatic

- Scanty, clear to mucopurulent discharge (yellow-gray)

58
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What is the typical presentation of Trichomonas vaginalis in females?

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  • Usually symptomatic
  • Profuse vaginal discharge, frothy and malodorous
  • Creates an environment for bacterial vaginosis
59
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How is Trichomonas vaginalis dx?

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  • Wet mount is commonly used

- Culture is more specific

60
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Is bacterial vaginosis an STI?

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NO

Caused by an overgrowth of opportunistic pathogen in the vagina die to a change in pH

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What is the normal vaginal pH?

62
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What pH is seen in bacterial vaginosis?

63
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What is the criteria for dx bacterial vaginosis?

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  • Presence of clue cells
  • Release of amine odor when 10% KOH is added
  • Vaginal pH > 4.5
  • Presence of curved gram negative or gram variable rods
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What type of discharge is seen with Trichomoniasis? Vaginosis?

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Trichomoniasis: Thin and yellow-gray

Vaginosis: Thin and grey

65
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What is the most common opportunistic mycoses (fungal infection) world wide?

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Candidiases

66
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What is the etiology of Vulvovaginal candidiases (yeast infection)?

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Majority- Candidia albicans

Minority- Candidia tropicalis, Candidia glabrata

67
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What type of discharge is seen with Vulvovaginal candidiases (yeast infection)?

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Thick, white, frothy discharge

No odor

68
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What is the etiology of chancroid?

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Haemophilus ducreyi

69
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Is Haemophilus ducreyi gram positive/negative? What shape?

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Gram negative coccobacillus

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How does a typical Haemophilus ducreyi (chancroid) lesion present?

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Tender papule on the genitalia that develops into an ulcer with sharp margins and no induration

71
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What is a soft chancre?

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A lesion associated with Chancroid:

  • Soft ragged edge
  • Painful
  • Pus
  • Bleeds readily
  • No induration
72
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What is a chancre sore?

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A lesion associated with syphilis

  • Hard raised edge
  • Painless
  • Indurated
73
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How is Haemophilus ducreyi (chancroid) dx?

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  • ID from genital ulcer or swollen lymph node

- PCR

74
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What can occur when microorganisms ascend into the endometrium, fallopian tubes and contiguous structures?

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Pelvic Inflammatory Disease

75
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What are the most common etiologies of Pelvic Inflammatory Disease? (2)

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  • Neisseria gonorrhoeae

- Chlamydia trachomatis

76
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How is PID dx?

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Evidence of inflammation

  • Fever
  • Leukocytosis
  • Elevated ESR

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