A 28-year-old woman was admitted to a Wisconsin hospital

Where are normal microbiota found in the female reproductive system?

What factors protect the male urinary and reproductive systems from infection?

On what basis is L. interrogans named?

How do gonococci attach to mucosal epithelial cells?

What causes pus formation in gonorrhea?

How is gonorrhea diagnosed?

What is PID?

A diagnostic method for syphilis is the darkeld microscope. Why not use a brighteld microscope?

How is syphilis diagnosed?

How are the primary, secondary, and tertiary stages of syphilis distinguished?

What symptoms would cause you to look for clue cells?

What are possible causes for changes in the incidence of a disease, such as shown on this graph?

What microbe causes genital herpes?

What is the relationship between genital warts and cervical cancer?

Are there any harmful eects from infection by this protozoan?

Microscopic examination of vaginal smear shows gram-negative cocci in phagocytes Use the following choices to answer questions 25:a. Candidab. Chlamydiac. Gardnerella d. Neisseriae. Trichomonas

Di_cult to treat with chemotherapy Use the following choices to answer questions 68:a. candidiasisb. bacterial vaginosisc. genital herpes d. lymphogranuloma venereume. trichomoniasis

Fluid-lled vesicles

Frothy, shy discharge Use the following choices to answer questions 68:a. candidiasisb. bacterial vaginosisc. genital herpes d. lymphogranuloma venereume. trichomoniasis

_e most common cause of cystitis Use the following choices to answer questions 9 and 10:a. Chlamydia trachomatisb. Escherichia coli c. Mycobacterium hominisd. Staphylococcus saprophyticus

In cases of NGU, diagnosis is made using PCR to detect microbial DNA Use the following choices to answer questions 9 and 10:a. Chlamydia trachomatisb. Escherichia coli c. Mycobacterium hominisd. Staphylococcus saprophyticus

Neisseria is cultured on _ayer-Martin media, consisting of chocolate agar and nystatin, incubated in a 5% CO2 environment. How is this selective for Neisseria?

A previously healthy 19-year-old woman was admitted to a hospital aer 2 days of nausea, vomiting, headache, and neck stiness. Cerebrospinal uid and cervical cultures showed gram-negative diplococci in leukocytes; a blood culture was negative. What disease did she have? How was it probably acquired?

A 28-year-old woman was admitted to a Wisconsin hospital with a 1-week history of arthritis of the lef knee. Four days later, a 32-year-old man was examined for a 2-week history of urethritis and a swollen, painful lef wrist. A 20-year-old woman seen in a Philadelphia hospital had pain in the right knee, lef ankle, and lef wrist for 3 days. Pathogens cultured from synovial fuid or urethral culture were gram-negative diplococci that required proline to grow. Antibiotic sensitivity tests gave the following results:

Using the following information, determine what the disease is and how the infants illness might have been prevented:May 11:A 23-year-old woman has her rst prenatal examination. She is 412 months pregnant. Her VDRL results are negative.June 6: The woman returns to her physician complaining of a labial lesion of a few days duration. A biopsy is negative for malignancy, and herpes test results are negative.July 1: The woman returns to her physician because the labial lesion continues to cause some discomfort.Sept. 15: The babys father has multiple penile lesions and a generalized body rash.Sept. 25: The woman delivers her baby. Her RPR is 32, and the infants is 128.Oct. 1: The woman takes her infant to a pediatrician because the baby is lethargic. She is told the infant is healthy and not to worry.Oct. 2: The babys father has a persistent body rash and plantar and palmar rashes.Nov. 8: The infant becomes acutely ill with pneumonia and is hospitalized. The admitting physician nds signs of osteochondritis