GUM Flashcards
What is the treatment of HSV?
Acyclovir 200 mg 5 times a day for 5 days
What is the treatment of thrush?
Fluconazole 150 mg (orally) as a single dose
What criteria is used in BV? What are the components? What score indicates the diagnosis?
Amsel criteria (3/4 needed)
- White homogenous thin discharge
- Fishy odour
- Clue cells on microscopy
- pH >4.5
What are 3 complication of gonorrhoea?
- PID
- Bartholin/Skene’s abscess
- Disseminated gonorrhoea
What do you get in disseminated gonorrhoea?
- Fever
- Pustular rash
- Migratory polyarthralgia septic arthritis
Give 4 causes of abnormal vaginal discharge
- Bacterial vaginosis
- Vaginal candidiasis
- Trichomoniasis
- Cervicitis/PID
Patient X complains of fishy-smelling, thin, grey discharge. They have no itching. What’s the dx?
Bacterial vaginosis
Patient X complains of white curdy discharge that doesn’t smell. They have superficial soreness. What’s the dx?
Vaginal candidiasis
Patient X complains of fishy-smelling, green frothy discharge. The also have pain on urinating. What’s the dx?
Trichomoniasis
Patient X complains of abnormal discharge along with post-coital bleeding. What’s the dx?
Cervicitis
What is the most common STI in the UK?
Chlamydia
What is the treatment of chlamydia?
Doxycycline (100mg) BD for 7 days
What is the treatment of Syphilis?
IM Benzathine benzylpenicillin
Which is more likely to be symptomatic gonorrhoea or chlamydia?
Gonorrhoea
Which STIs are detected by a high-vaginal charcoal media swab?
Bacterial vaginosis, trichomoniasis, candida and Group B streptococcus
Which STIs are detected by a Nuclei Acid Amplification Test (NAAT) swab?
Chlyamadia and gonorrhoea
What 3 things increase someones STI risk?
- <25
- New sexual partner/>1 sexual partner in the last 12 months
- Previous STI
Gram -ve coil?
Syphilis
Keratinocytes with ballooned nuclei with a ground glass appearance?
Herpes Zoster
Gram +ve cocci in chains, beta haemolytic on blood agar plates?
Group B strep
RNA virus?
Rubella
Management of GBS infection during labour?
IV penicillin in labour
Ziehl-Neelson stain, gram -ve rod?
Mycobacterium TB
Retrovirus?
HIV
Gram -ve diplococcus?
Gonorrhoea
Gram -ve, anaerobic cocci?
Chlamydia
Gram variable staining facultative anaerobic bacteria?
Gardnerella vaginalis (BV)