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1
Q

Bacterial Urinary Tract Infections

Symptoms
Organism
Transmission
Key Associations

A
  • Urge to urinate, burning
  • Cloudy, bright pink or cola colored
  • MC E.coli
  • Other bacteria usually nosocomial (catheters)
  • Self-innoculate fecal bacteria into urethra
2
Q

Serratia maracescens: aka _____________

A

Pink mold

3
Q

Leptospirosis

Symptoms
Organism
Transmission
Key Associations

A
  • Flu like, later meningitis, rash, jaundice and kidney failure
  • Severe infections called WEIL’S DISEASE
  • Leptospira interrogans (bacteria)
  • Don’t let pee get in you (eye, mouth, nose)
4
Q

Acute Poststreptococcal Glorerulonephritis

Symptoms
Organism
Transmission
Key Associations

A
  • sudden edema, hematuria, proteinuria, HTN
  • Irreversible kidney damage possible in adults
  • 2 weeks after strep (post strep infxn)
  • Streptococcus pyogenes
5
Q

Staphylococcal Toxic Shock Syndrome
(STSS)

Symptoms
Organism
Transmission
Key Associations

A
  • Non venereal
  • Sudden flu symptoms
  • Extremely low BP, confusion, severe red rash, loss of sheets of skin, shock (fatal)
  • Staph aureus
  • Strains grow in wound or in an abraded vagina
  • Grows in tampons
  • Menstruating women more at risk
  • Medical emergency
6
Q

Bacterial Vaginosis

Symptoms
Organism
Transmission
Key Associations

A
  • Non venereal (not an STD)
  • FISHY VAGINA
  • White vag discharge
  • itching, pain, burning
  • Various anaerobic bacteria
  • Swingers and douchers
7
Q

Vaginal Yeast Infection

Symptoms
Organism
Transmission
Key Associations

A
  • thick, white, Odor-FREE discharge (cottage cheese appearance)
  • Candida albicans (fungus)
  • opportunistic, after antibiotics
  • Aka Fungal vaginitis/candidiasis
  • candida overgrows from vag pH or microbiota changes
  • take probiotics
8
Q

Who is more at risk for STDs

A

Female adolescents (cervical lining prone to bacterial infxn)

9
Q

Gonorrhea

Symptoms
Organism
Transmission
Key Associations

A
  • The Clap
  • Black women
  • Neisseria gonorrhoeae
  • “the gonococcus”
  • women often asymptomatic
  • men peeing pain and penis pus
  • Can be infected multiple times
10
Q

Chlamydia

Symptoms
Organism
Transmission
Key Associations

A
  • chlamydia trachomatis
  • women asymptomatic
  • men peeing pain and penis pus (non-gonococcal urethritis)
  • MC REPORTABLE STD in US
  • Elementary bodies = infective form
  • Reticulate bodies = reproductive form
11
Q

Lymphogranuloma Venereum

Symptoms
Organism
Transmission
Key Associations

A
  • Bubo in the groin
  • Chlamydia trachomatis (bacteria)
  • STD
  • Diff strain of chlamydia
  • More common in South American Men
12
Q

Granuloma Injuinale

Symptoms
Organism
Transmission
Key Associations

A
  • “Beefy red lesion”
  • Klebsiella granulomatis (bacteria)
  • painless nodules, then oozing lesions
  • aka donovanosis, granuloma genitoinguinale, granuloma venereum
13
Q

Syphilis

Symptoms
Organism
Transmission
Key Associations

A

-Primary: reddened PAINLESS chancre, 3-6 wks
-2ndary: WIDESPREAD RASH (no itching/pain) + flu symptoms + lymphadenopathy
-Latent: Most cases stop here
-Tertiary: 1/3 or cases progress
Affects any tissue or organ
GUMMAS (fubbery, paunful lesions in bones, nerves, or skin) Dementia, blindness, paralysis, heart failure

  • Treponema pallidum pallidum
  • Penicillin G treats all but tertiary
  • sex, birth
14
Q

Chancroid

Symptoms
Organism
Transmission
Key Associations

A
  • Pain of chancre makes you cry in your eye
  • Haemophilus ducreyi
  • painful soft chancre
  • often asymptomatic in women
15
Q

Genital herpes

Symptoms
Organism
Transmission
Key Associations

A

-Genital/rectal blisters
HHV-2 (sometimes 1)
-Latent in sacral ganglia
-quadruples risk of HIV infxn

16
Q

Genital Wart

Symptoms
Organism
Transmission
Key Associations

A
  • HPV
  • MC STD in US
  • associated with cervical and oropharyngeal CA
  • “couliflower-like growths” called condylomata acuminata
17
Q

Aquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome

Symptoms
Organism
Transmission
Key Associations

A
  • Not a disease, a syndrome
  • HIV (immunosuppressive retrovirus)
  • HAART (coctail of antiviral drugs) to reduce viral replication
  • ELISA/Western Blot tests
18
Q

Kaposi’s Sarcoma

Symptoms
Organism
Transmission
Key Associations

A
  • Skin cancer
  • Bluish-red or purple bumps
  • HHV-8
  • Very common in AIDS pts, rare in healthy ppl
  • transmit through bodily secretions
19
Q

Trichomoniasis

Symptoms
Organism
Transmission
Key Associations

A
  • FROTHY GREEN DISCHARGE
  • “she turns tricks for green”
  • usually asymptomatic in men
  • Trichomonas vaginalis (protozoan)
  • Sex
  • MC curable STD in women (kill is with antibiotic = odd)
  • Increases risk of HIV infxn