Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Question 1

Gonorrhea

Answer 1

Clinical features: urethritis, cervicitis, PID, prostatitis, epididymitis, arthritis, creamy purulent discharge
Organism: Neisseria gonorrhea

Question 2

Primary syphilis

Answer 2

Clinical features: Painless chancre

Organism: Treponema pallidum

Question 3

Secondary syphilis

Answer 3

Clinical Features: Fever, lymphadenopathy, skin rashes, condylomata lata

Question 4

Tertiary syphilis

Answer 4

Clinical Features: Gummas, tabes dorsalis, general paresis, aortitis, Argyll Robertson pupil

Question 5

Chancroid

Answer 5

Clinical Features: painful genital ulcer, inguinal adenopathy
organism: haemophilus ducreyi

Question 6

Genital herpes

Answer 6

Clinical features: painful penile, vulvar or cervical vesicles and ulcers; can cause systemic symptoms such as fever, headache and myalgia
Organism: HSV-2, less commonly HSV-1

Question 7

Chlamydia

Answer 7

Clinical features: urethritis, cervicitis, conjunctivitis, Reiter’s syndrome, PID
Organism: chlamydia trachomatis (D-K)

Question 8

Lymphogranuloma vereneum

Answer 8

Clinical features: infection of lymphatics; genital ulcers, lymphadenopathy, rectal strictures
Organism: chlamydia trachomatis (L1-L3)

Question 9

Trichomoniasis

Answer 9

Clinical features: vaginitis, strawberry-colored mucosa, motile in wet prep
Organism: trichomonas vaginalis

Question 10

AIDS

Answer 10

clinical features: opportunistic infections, Kaposi’s sarcoma, lymphoma
organism: HIV

Question 11

Condylomata acuminata

Answer 11

clinical features: genital warts, koilocytes

organism: HPV-6, HPV-11

Question 12

Hepatitis B

Answer 12

clinical features: jaundice

organism: HBV

Question 13

Bacterial vaginosis

Answer 13

clinical features: noninflammatory, malodorous discharge (fishy smell); positive whiff test, clue cells, not exclusively an STD
organism: gardnerella vaginalis