STDs

Question 1

What organism causes Gonorrhea?

Answer 1

gram negative bacteria, diplococcus

Question 2

What type of agar does Gonorrhea grow?

Answer 2

Neisseria Gonorrhea

Question 3

What are symptoms of Gonorrhea?

Answer 3

Chocolate Agar
Dysuria
green mucopurulent
joint issues(most common is knee)
sterility in men (affects testes)
salpingitis in women
blindness in newborns

Question 4

What is Chlamydia?

Answer 4

Reiter Disease
Ophthalmia neonatorum
PID (females)
Asymptomatic (males)
Most common cause of family infertility

Question 5

What is PID?

Answer 5

Inflammatory infection of the reproductive organs in females, most common in fallopian tubes

Question 6

PID AKA

Answer 6

Pelvic Inflammatory Disease

Question 7

PID causes

Answer 7

salpingitus
gonorrhea
chlamydia
candidiasis
trichimoniasis

Question 8

What is syphillis?

Answer 8

organism is spirochete treponema pallidum(gram negative bacteria)

Question 9

How can syphillis be transmitted?

Answer 9

placenta

Question 10

How is syphillis treated?

Answer 10

penicillin

Question 11

What is syphillis associated with?

Answer 11

Hutchinson’s triad(interstitial keratitis, notched permanent incisors, CNVIII deafness)

Question 12

What is the diagnostic tool for syphillis?

Answer 12

Darkfield microscopy, labs (VDRI, FTA/ABS,TPI)

Question 13

What is the primary stage of syphillis?

Answer 13

hard chancre that is singular and painless(up to 8 weeks)

Question 14

What is the secondary stage of syphillis?

Answer 14

maculopapular rash, condylomatat lata (flat warts) and alopecia (8 weeks to 2 years)
transmission to others usually occurs during this stage

Question 15

What is the tertiary stage of syphillis?

Answer 15

tabes dorsalis, gummas, vascular damage(aortic aneurysm or aortic valve insufficiency)(can last >25 years) - no tranmission can occur during this stage

Question 16

What is trichimoniasis?

Answer 16

parasite causes yellow, frothy, foul smelling discharge

Question 17

What is Lymphogranuloma venereum?

Answer 17

chlamydia infection which affects the lymph bodes in the groin and produces rectal strictures

Question 18

What is Granuloma Inguinale?

Answer 18

bacteria infection which causes a red, beefy lesion in the anogenital perineal area

Question 19

What is Moniliasis?

Answer 19

Candidiasis - fungus/yeast - white cottage cheese like discharge seen in mouth(thrush) or in the vagina, associated wtih diabetes

Question 20

What is Granuloma Inguinale?

Answer 20

bacteria which causes a red, beefy lesion in the anogenital perineal area

Question 21

What is genital herpes?

Answer 21

viral(HSV-2) infection creates vesicle clusters to reoccur with decreased immunity or stress

Question 22

What is genital warts?

Answer 22

condylomatat accuminata
caused human papilloma virus
papilloma(painful, soft, flesh colored, cauliflower erosions)
linked to cervical cancer

Question 23

What is AIDS?

Answer 23

HIV(retrovirus) leads to many opportunistic infections

Question 24

What are the contraindications for AIDS?

Answer 24

breast feeding

Question 25

Who is high risk for AIDS?

Answer 25

homosexual male
IV users

Question 26

What are the labs for AIDS?

Answer 26

ELISA is screening test(RNA)
Western Blot is confirmatory (proteins)

Question 27

What are the associated conditions related to AIDS?

Answer 27

pneumocystis carinii(most common), giardia lamblia and kaposi’s sarcoma

Question 28

What is Molluscum contagiosum?

Answer 28

virus which can occur in children and in adults is only sexually transmitted
dome shaped, flesh colored or gray umbilicated papule that becomes pearly white with a caseous core, seen in mucosa of the mouth and eyelids