STD-Shapiro Flashcards
What is the rule of 5’s?
5 steps, 5 prevention messages, 5 PID referrals, 5PID treatment indicators
What are the 5 C’s of treatment?
- contact tracing
- compliance
- confidentiality
- condom use
- counseling
For gonorrhea
-diagnoses are now made with (Blank) rather than by culture
(as a result, there are not organisms on media that can be tested except in specific areas that are being used for surveillance or in the setting of treatment failure investigations)
Nucleic acid amplification
TB started to decrease until a disease started to increase immunosuppresion and thus increase TB, what disease is this?
HIV-1
i.e higher HIV = higher TB
What gender get chlamydia more?
What gender gets gonorrhea more?
women
Equal rates
What sexual preference has the highest rates of primary and secondary syphilis? Where were they mostly diagnosed? What gender gets it the most?
Men having sex with Men
NON-STD clinic
men
younger people are more likely to get (blank) than older people. Where are the highest rates of this in the country?
gonorrhea
South East and Alaska
How do genital ulcer diseases increase HIV transmission?
- Reducing physical/mechanical barriers (disruption of epithelium)
- Increasing HIV in genital lesions, semen or both (even if viral load is undetectable)
Is syphilis declining? Who is most likely to get it?
yes
Men having sex with men
What states are most likely to get syphilis and chlamydia?
The south
What sex is most likely to get chlamydia? What race?
college age women
Blacks> native americans and alaskan natives> hispanics> whites> multirace
Women/men tend to have fewer symptoms thatn men/women so they seek care later than men/women and are more likely to have complications than women/men
Womena
men
men
men
What is the most common type of syphilis?
primary and secondary
T or F
Nucleic amplification tests are always correct
F, there are a lot of false-positive tests
If the prevalence of a disease is high, then the PPV value is going to be (blank)
high
