L24: STD's Flashcards
Syphillis, Chancroids, Lymphogranuloma Venereum, and Genital Herpes belong to which group:
A. Genital Ulcer Disease
B. Warts and Papilomma
C. Cervicitis, Urethritis + PID
A. Genital Ulcer Disease
True or False: Gonorrhea and Chlamydia are cervicitis, urethritis, and PID
True
True or False: PID is associated with ectopic pregnancies
True
True or False: Gonorrhea and Chlamydia are common co-infections
True
Which pathogen is responsible for transmission of syphillis
Treponema pallidum
- gram negative
- spirochete
- visible by dark field only!
How does T. pallidum lead to syphillis?
- Direct contact
- Break in skin/mucosal membrane
- humans are sole reservoir
Localized lesions (latent period is associated with) which stage of syphillis?
Systemic lesions refer to which stage?
Neuro and cardiac symptoms, as well as gumma, are associated with which stage?
Primary
Secondary
Tertiary (damage done by immune response)
Hard chancre/genital ulcer with a button induration, both of which are typically PAINLESS, is associated with which stage of syphilis?
Primary
Low grade fever, highly infectiously lesions, rash of palms and soles, and involvement of many organs are signs of which stage of syphilis?
Stage 2
____: A slow, progressive inflammatory disease affecting any organ system; refractory to abc therapy and fatal.
Stage 3 Syphilis
How can one develop congenital form of Syphilis?
A mother who has syphilis can give it to her child
- Neonates often die
- If they live, they go through all three stages
Treat any of the stages of Syphilis?
Long acting benzathine penicillin (tetracycline, Azithromycin)
_____: Reaction that often occurs after initiation of syphilis treatment
Jarisch-Herxheimer Reaction
- Flu like sx
- Endotoxic shock like response related to rapid release of components by dead or dying treponemas; rarely fatal
Soft Chancroid is characterized by pain and is caused by the gram negative, fastidious rod-shaped bacterium ____
H. ducreyi
Chancroid increases the risk of acquiring ___
HIV
- attracts T cells
Treatment of Chancroid?
Lymphogranuloma Venereum manifestations?
