Genitourinary Infections

Sx: burning urination, frequent, urgent voiding, cloudy, smelly urine, pale-red urine

most common UTI, NOT STD

Tx: Antibiotics

Sx: Headache, fever, red eyes, muscle pain

spread thru animal urine, spirochete

Tx: Tertacycline (antibiotic)

Sx: Thin, grayish-white discharge, fishy smell

Increase in clue cells

Tx: Metronidazole (active against anaerobes)

Sx: itching, burning, white clumpy discharge, redness & swelling, involves vagina & vulva

Yeast = Candidia albicans

Tx: Intravaginal anti-fungal meds

Sx: sudden onset, high temp, sunburn rash, rapid dramatic drop in BP

Superantigen exotoxin, wearing tampon too long

Tx: antibiotics & neutralize toxins

Sx: asympt, painful urination, discharge, sterility, ectopic preg

found on leucocytes of infected pus, can cause disseminated gonococcal infection (arthritis), Opthalmia neonatorum (infects eyes of newborns)

Tx: Cephalosporins (antibiotic)

Sx: grayish-white discharge, abnormal bleeding, abdominal pain, asymp

#1 STD, elementary body, reticulate body

Tx: antibiotics

• Sx: hard painless chancre, rash, balance issues, personality change, dementia
• Congenital sx: no bridge of nose, notched teeth

STD, motile g-neg spirochete not grown in lab

Tx: Penicillin Injection

Sx: Soft, painful chancres, painful pus-filled lymph nodes

STD, starts w/pimple, then dvlps ulcer

Tx: antibiotics

Sx: itching, burning, blisters, ulcers

STD, latent virus, promotes spread of HIV

Tx: no cure, acyclovir decreses severity & recurrence

Sx: genital warts, asymp

STD, abnormal pap

Tx: remove growth on cervix, remove warts (doesnt cure)

Sx: fever, headache, muscle aches, enlarged lymph nodes, rash, Kaposi's lesions

STD, needles, retrovirus, attacks helper T-cells

• Tx: Meds available: block reverse transcriptase activ, act against viral protease, block viral integrase, interfere w/attachment
• Given in combination; not curative but anti-viral therapy improves QOL

• Sx: green frothy discharge, burning urination
• Protozoan w/ jerky movements

Tx: antibiotic