Bacterial infections survive well on dry, cool inanimate objects therefore transmission is via sexual intercourse and other methods
Fals
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Gonorrhea is mostly asymptomatic is
Women
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About __% of women suffer from PID due to gonorrhea infections
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Neisseria gonorrhoeae causes
Gonorrhea
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Neisseria gonorrhoeae
Gram negative, cocci
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Using ________ n. gonorrhoeae can hitchike on sperm cells and access uterine tubes and beyond - causing PID
Fimbriae
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Treatment for gonorrhea is difficult as_______
There are many strains which show resistance to a wide variety of antibiotics
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There are __ main phases of syphilis
4
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A small chancre forms at the site of infection 10 - 12 days after infection
Primary syphilis
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As syphilis progresses, a rash forms that may persist for months, headaches, sore throats, mild fever, malaise and diseased lymph nodes present as symptoms
Secondary syphilis
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This phase of syphilis presents no symptoms
Latent syphilis
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Dementia, blindless, paralysis, heart faliure and syphilitic gummas present if untreated
Tertiary syphilis
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What causes syphilis
Treponema pallidum
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Treponema pallidum
Spirochete, gram negative
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The most common bacterial STD
Chlamydia
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Chlamydia is often aymptomatic in 85% of _______
Women
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Chlamydia is sympotomatic in 75% of _______
Men
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Chyamydia infections can infect epididymatis and orchitis and cause sterility in
Men
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Trachoma develops in babies born with ______
Chlamidya
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A severe form of _________ is lymphogranuloma venereum
Chlamydia
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A bubo is
A painfully enlarged lymph node
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The most common strain causing chlamydia STDs in humans
Chlamydia trachomatis
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Elementary bodies are the infective form, reticulate bodies are the reproductive form in _________
Chlamydia
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Soft, painful genital ulcers from 5 - 50 mm, with a yellowish grey base and bleeds easily when scratched
Chancroid
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The most common symptom in women is an ulcer that blocks the urethra in women
Chancroid
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Caused by haemophilus ducreyi
Chancroid
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What often causes toxic shock syndrome?
Staphylococcus aureus
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Other cards in this set
Card 2
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Gonorrhea is mostly asymptomatic is
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Women
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About __% of women suffer from PID due to gonorrhea infections
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