urogenital tract Flashcards
urogenital anatomy
- upper urinary tract
- ureters and kdineys - lower urinary tract
- bladder and urethra
describe major urinary tract infections
pathogen,epidemiology, risk factors
- urethritis:STD most.eg. gonorrhoea
- prostatitis
- cystitis:bladder
- pyelonephritis
describe genital tract infections
causative organisms,epi,risk
- bacterial:…………….
- viral:genital herpes(hsv),human papilloma virus(hpv)
- fungi:candidiasis/thrush(candida spp)
- protozoal:trichomoniasis(tirchiomona vaginalis)
stage of UTI
- colonization
- uroepithelium penetration
- ascension
- pyelonephritis
- acute kidney injury
urinary tract infection risk factor
- female gender
- diabetes
- pregnancy
- calculi within the urinary tract
- urinary catheterisation
- uninary tract abnormality
UTIs majority pathogen
E.coli
chlamydia
chalmydia trachomatis(gram negative-like,intracellular,coccoid)
chlamydia diagnose
NAAT:nucleic acid amplification test
antigen testing
chlamydia pregnate mother impact infant
pneumonia
chlamydia symptom
pelvic inflammatory disease(PID)
baterical vaginosis pathogen
usually mix of anaerobes.eg:gardnerella vaginalis
BV diagonsis
1.microscopy.wet mount:clue cell.
few polymorphs,epithelial cells
syphilis pathgoen
Treponema pallidum
describe syphilis stage
primary: initial sign is small, hard-based chance or sore.leisions highly infectious,disappear after two weeks.
secondary: several weeks later skin rashes,caused by circulating immun complexes.rash can found in mucous membranes.lesion very infetious
tertiary: (latent phase):due to immnity reaction to surviving spirochaetes. can cause neurosyphilis
congenital syphilis
- mental development damage
- common occurs in latent period
- pregnancy in primary or secondary satge likely to result in stillbirth