Question | Answer |
Cervicitis | cervical inflammation |
Chancre | painless ulcer on the genitalia--primary disease--males usually see, not females--layer of fluid that is highly contagious covers the lesion--syphilis |
Chlamydia | gram-neg, obligate intracellular pathogen--unable to make ATP, vegitative intracellular, infectious extracellular, most infectious bacterium in world, grows in phagocytes, 70% females-30%males asymptomatic-chlamydia trachomatis |
Energy parasites | unable to make ATP--must transport from host cells |
General paresis | dementia due to syphilis--occurs approx. 20 yrs after infection--emotion instability, memory loss, impaired judgment, delusions, hallucinations, loss of vision, eye damage, speech defects |
gonococcus | GC--gonnohea |
Gonorrhea | gram-neg--bean-shaped dilocci-ialso called gonococcus(GC)--males-urethritis, dysuria, pus-like exudate--women-cervicitis, pharyngitis, proctitis, conjunctivitis-babies, PID--Neisseria gonorrhoeae |
Gummas | syphlis--destruction of soft tissue of bone, heart, brain, internal viscera, etc.-few/no organisms present--penicillin not effective--tertiary stage |
Inclusion conjunctivitis | eye infection in babies--endosomal bags of growing Chlamydia--seen in cytoplasm of eye cells |
Nongonococcal urethritis | NGU--most commonly caused by C. trachomatis |
PID | pelvic inflammatory disease--may lead to infertility due to scar tissue on fallopian tubes |
Pilin | protein that comprises pili--pilin-neg strains of gonococcus are nonpathogenic--can't attach well and are washed away by urinary stream-- |
Reservoir | humans only source--gonorrhea |
Salpingitis | chlamydia--bacteria can ascent asymptomatically to follopian fubes cause scaring-leads to closure and sterility |
Syphilis | spirochete--neither gram-neg or gram-pos--Treponema pallidum--3 stages--chancre, rash-typically on palms and soles, mucous patches in mouth--tertiary stage gummas-- |
Trachoma | eye disease caused by C. trachomatis--problems in areas of the world without ABT--hypersensitivity reactions due to multiple infections--greatest cause of blindness in the world |
Urethritis | inflammation of the urethra |