Sex-transmitted infections-Shapiro Flashcards
Which gender tends ot have fewer symptoms?
Which gender spreads STIs more?
Women (less likely to seek care)
Men
T or F
Condoms break less often than our will to use them
and
none of the available diagnostic tests are perfect
T
How does disease prevalence of a disease relate to the PPV of that disease?
low prevelance-> low PPV
What are the diseases characterized by urethritis and cervicitis?
Gonococcal infections
Chlamydial infections
Nongonococcal urethritis
What are the diseases characterized by vaginal discharge?
Bacterial Vaginosis
Trichomonasis
Vulvovaginal Candidiasis
What are the diseases characterized by ulcerations?
Chancroid and Syphilis
Genital herpes Infections (HSV-2 and HSV-1)
Granuloma inguinale
What other genitourinary infections?
pelvic inflammatory disease
genital warts
What is the most common STI in men and women?
What is it characterized by?
What is it classified as?
Urethritis and cervicitis
Urethral inflammation
Gonococcal and nongonococcal urethritis
How should treat urethrtisis and cervicits?
Antibiotics for N. gonorrhoeae (50-90% cause of infection)
Antibiotics for chlamydia trachomatis (commonly occurs with N. gonorrhoae)
What are all the bacteria that cause urethritis and cervicitis?
Chlamydia trachomatis (20-50%) Ureaplasma urealyticum (20-80%) Mycoplasma genitalium (10-30%) Trichomonas vaginalis (1-70%)
What is this: gram-neg non motile non spore forming diplococci oxidase positive Does this present extracellularly or intracellulary? How do you culture it?
N. Gonorrhoeae
intracellularly in the PMN
-fastidious, requiring CO2, special media, inhibited by fatty acids (such as on cotton swabs)
What are the clinical features of urethritis and cervicits: what sex does it affect? How is it transmitted? What is the incubation period? What are the symptoms in males?
Affects urethra in both sexes.
Transmission – sexual contact; during birth (eye involvement)
Incubation period: 2-5 days.
Intense burning sensation, fever and malaise.
In men urethritis is characterized by either clear, mucopurulent or purulent urethral discharge.
Men with gonococcal urethritis has a (blank) discharge and (blank) percent of males are mild or asymptomatic while (blank) percent of females may be asymptomatic
purulent discharge
15%
50%
What is the primary site of gonococcal infection in a female? what are the symptoms in a female?
Primary site - endocervical canal Symptoms of urethritis includes: - Discharge - scanty, mucopurulent cervical discharge. - Vaginal pruritus - Dysuria
What are the complications of N. gonorrhoeae urethritis or cervicitis?
- Disseminated gonococcal infection (DGI)
- Acute arthritis-dermatitis syndrome
- Gonococcal arthritis
- Endocarditis (uncommon)
- Meningitis (rare)
All men suspected of urethritis should be tested for (blank and blank).
Diagnostic approaches in men begin with distinguishing patients who have urethral discharge: (blank discharge vs blank discharge)
If you have n. gonorrhea what will the gram stain of the urethra secretions show, and is this a good test?
gonorrhea and Chlamydia.
mucopurulent or purulent.
gram-negative diplococci: >90% sensitive in symptomatic men
Why dont you gram stain the cervix to check for N gonorrhaea? What are other tests you can use?
cuz there are other gram neg bacteria in there so this isn’t helpful
PCR, other nucleic acid amplification testing
Culture (less common now than moleculartesting)
What is the Tx for n. gonorrhea?
Ceftriaxone (for N. gonorrhoeae) in combo with azithromycin or doxycycline (for C. trachomatis cuz its common)
- abstain for sexual activity
- undergo other STD tests and HIV
IN MEN:
C. trachomatis will cause what diseases locally?
Complications?
Sequelae?
locally: -Conjunctivitis -Urethritis -Prostatitis Complications: -Reiter’s syndrome -Epididymitis Sequelae: -Chronic arthritis (rare) -Infertility (rare)
IN WOMEN:
C. trachomatis will cause what diseases locally?
Complications?
Sequelae?
Locally: Conjunctivitis Urethritis Cervicitis Proctitis Complications: Endometritis Salpingitis Perihepatitis Reiter’s syndrome Sequelae: Infertility Ectopic pregnancy Chronic pelvic pain Chronic arthritis (rare)
IN INFANTS:
C. trachomatis will cause what diseases locally?
Complications?
Sequelae?
Locally: Conjunctivitis Pneumonitis Pharyngitis Rhinitis Complications: Chronic Lung disease Sequelae: rare if any
C trachomatis is gram (blank). Obligate (intracellular/extracellular) bacteria that preferentially infects (blank) epithelium.
What is the incubation period?
What will this cause?
What are the symptoms like in urethritis caused by c. trachomatis?
negative
intracellular (i.e needs living cells to grow)
squamo-colomunar epithelium
-1-3 weeks
-urethritis and post-gonnococal urethritis
-Low grade urethritis with moderate mucoid or mucopurulent urethral discharge & variable dysuria.
Subclinical urethritis are also common.
Cervix as 2 types of cells, what are these?
flat, squamous cells and glandular cells, which secrete mucus
Cervicitis is the inflammation of cervix, which is caused by (blank and blank).
What are the 2 types?
What are the distinct signs of acute cervicits?
gonorrhea and chlamydia
acute and chronic
-purulent and mucopurulent endocervical exudate visible in the endocervical canal, sustained cervical bleeding, discharge and bleeding
How do you diagnose cervicitis?
gross evidence of purulent material from an inflamed cervix AND 10 or more polymorphonuclear (PMN) leukocytes per microscopic field (oil immersion).
What are the main symptoms of chronic cervicits? What are other signs
leukorrhea-> purulent-variable in color
- bleeding, itching, irritation in the external genital; pain during intercourse.
- Cervical polyps (small, smooth, red, fingerlike growth in the passage extending from the uterus.)
What are the diseases characterized by vaginal dishcarge?
Bacterial Vaginosis
Trichomonasis
Vulvovaginal Candidiasis
(blank) discharge accounts for approx. 6-10 millions office visits per year.
Characterized by a vaginal discharge and/or vulvar itching and irritation and vaginal odor.
Since vaginits and cervicitis cause discharge, how can you tell the difference?
Vaginitis
pH and microscopic exam of discharge
What is this:
A condition where the normal balance of bacteria in the vagina is disrupted and replaced by an outgrowth of certain bacteria. It is accompanied by discharge, odor, pain, itching and burning.
Bacterial vaginosis (BV)
How do you diagnose BV?
- Presence of clue cells (epithelial cell with bacteria present)
- Elevated pH
- KOH test
- White discharge on vaginal wall
How do you transmit BV?
What is the most causative agent? How does this affect your pH? Why do you get a foul smelling vagina?
How can you diagnose it?
sexually (more common) and non sexually
- Gardnerelle vaginalis
- increases pH DUE TO DECREASED LACTOBACILLI
- overgrowth of anaerobes ass. with increased enzyme breakdown of vaginal peptides into amines, which cause malodors.
Diagnosis:
Wet mount evaluation (20% of cells are clue cells (vaginal ells with indistinct borders)
Culture of the vaginal secretions
DNA probe
What is this:
diffuse, malodorous, YELLOW GREEN FROTHY vaginal discharge with vular irriation( patchy redness) dysuria. Increased pH of vagina
-colonizes male urethra ais is mostly asymptomatic, but can cause NGU
What causes it?
HOw do you diagnosis?
trichomonas vaginalis
Diagnosis:
-culture, rapid assays, pap smear, DNA probes
What is this:
Symptoms include pruritis, dysuria, and thick curdy discharge (10-20% are asymptomatic)
What causes this?
Is it sexually transmitted?
Vulvovaginal candidasis
C. albicans (80-90%), C glabrate and C tropicalis too
NO
How do you diagnosis vulvovagina candidiasis?
How do you treat?
KOH wet mount (97% specific) w/ hyphae or spores Vaginal cultures (for recurrent symptoms ie. 4 or more infections a year) oral and topical therapies = effective
What are the four diseases characterized by ulcerations and what causes them?
Chancroid: Haemophilus ducreyi
Syphilis: Treponema pallidum
Genital HSV Infections: HSV-2 and HSV1
Granuloma inguinale: Klebsiella granulomatis
If you have rashes on your palms and sole of feet and balding what do they have?
syphilis
What is this:
Rare in U.S.
Over 25 cases reported in the US in 2008.
Caused by Haemophilus ducreyi (difficult to isolate).
A papule develops initially but goes on to erode into a painful ulcer.
Chancrois
What stage of syphilis is this: acute menignitis menigovascular general paresis tabes dorsalis gumma
tertiary
What stage of syphilis is this:
Rash, fever, malaise, lymphadenopathy, mucus lesions, conydloma, alopecia, meningitis, headaches
Secondary
incubations period is 2-6 months
What stage of syphilis is this:
chancre, regional lymphadenopathy
primary
What is this:
fulminant disseminated infection, mucocutaneous lesions, osteochondritis, anemia, hepatosplenomegaly, neurosyphilis
congenital syphilis early
What is this:
interstitial keratitis, lymphadenopathy, hepatosplenomegaly, bone involvement, condylomata, anemia. Hutchinsonian teeth, eight nerve deafness, recurrent arthropathy, neurosyphilis
Late congenital syphilis
how does syphilis progress? How is it transmitted?
What stages are syphilis most contagious?
What is an important at risk population?
In stages and may beome chronic w/out tx caused by treponema pallidum
- sexual (via skin and mucous membranes) and vertical (transplacentally)
- primary and secondary
- gay men and blacks
what is the etiologic agent of syphlis?
What is its shape? is it motile?
Can you culture or look at it?
treponema pallidum
corkscrew shaped, motile microaerophilic bacterium
cannot be cultured in vitro and can be viewed with DARKFIELD microscopy
How does T. pallidum (syphilis) disseminate?
-travels via circulatory system and lymphatics
and
-Can invade CNS
What is this:
Primary lesion or “chancre” develops at the site of inoculation. Regional lymphadenopathy (classically rubbery, painless bilateral)
What does the chancre progress to? Is it contangous? Is it painful? How long does it take for chancre to heal?
What will a serologic test show?
Primary syphilis
- Macule to papule to ulcer (multiple lesions can occur)
- highly infectious
- painless
- 3 to 6 weeks
may not be postive during early primary syphilis
In secondary syphlis, secondary lesions occur over (blank) after the primary chancre appears and may persist for weeks to months. Primary and secondary stages may (blank).
(blank) lesions are most common. What are the clinical manifestations? What will a serologic test show?
several weeks
overlap
mucocutaneous
- Rash (75-100%)
- Lymphadenopathy (50-80%)
- Mucous patches (6-30%)
- Condylomata lata (10-20%)
- Alopecia (5%)
-Usually higest in titer during this stage
What are all the rashes you can get in secondary syphilis?
- papulosquamos rash
- palmar/plantar rash
- generalized body rash
- papulo-pustular rash
- condylomata late
- nickel/dime lesions
What type of syphilis is this:
Host suppresses infection, but no lesions are clinically apparent
How can you tell it is present?
When does it occur?
What are the 2 catergories of latent syphilis?
latent syphilis
pos serologic test
b/w primary and secondary stages, between secondary relapses, and after secondary stages
-Early latent: 1 year duration
Neurosyphilis occurs when T. pallidum invades the CNS. What stage of syphillis does this occur? Early neurosyphilis occurs a few months to a few years after infection, the clinical manifestations of this can include (blank x 3)
any stage (may be asymptomatic)
-early: acute syphilitic meningitis, meningovascular syphilis, and ocular involvement