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Question 1

What’s the look back period for chlamydia?

Answer 1

6/12, unless urethral symptoms in which case 4 weeks

Question 2

What’s the look back period for gonorrhoea?

Answer 2

3/12, unless urethral symptoms in which case 2 weeks

Question 3

What’s the look back period for LGV?

Answer 3

4 weeks

Question 4

What’s the look back period for NSU?

Answer 4

4 weeks

Question 5

What’s the look back period for PID?

Answer 5

6/12

Question 6

What’s the look back period for epididymo-orchitis?

Answer 6

6/12

Question 7

What’s the look back period for TV?

Answer 7

4 weeks

Question 8

What’s the look back period for pubic lice?

Answer 8

3 months

Question 9

What is the incubation period for primary syphilis?

Answer 9

9-90 days

Question 10

What % of primary syphilis progress to secondary? And when does this happen?

Answer 10

25%. 4-10 weeks after initial chancre

Question 11

Chlamydia is asymptomatic in what % of women and what % of men?

Answer 11

70% of women, 50% of men

Question 12

Gonorrhoea is asymptomatic in what % of women and what % of men?

Answer 12

50% of women, 10% of men

Question 13

What are the neonatal complications of chlamydia and how commonly do they occur?

Answer 13

Ophalmia neonatorum 30-50%

Chlamydial pneomonitis 15%