Session 10 Infections of repro tract

• Chlamydia caused by gram negative bacteria.
• Chlamydia involves infection of columnar and transitional epithelium.
• Investigations for chlamydia?

  • NAAT
  • Urine tests
• Gonorrhoea is caused by gonococcus which is a gram negative diplococci,
• Common cause of non-gonococcal urethritis in males and PID in females - Mycoplasma genitalium
• Fitz-Hugh Curtis syndrome - perihepatitis
• Strawberry cervix - trichomonas vaginalis
• In trichomoniasis, the wet mount reveals numerous white blood cells and motile protozoa.
• General skin infection caused by a DNA poxvirus - Molluscum contagiosum
• STIs and antibiotics

  A) doxycycline

  B) doxycycline

  C) metronidazole

  D) ceftriaxone

  E) ceftriaxone

  F) cefrtriaxone

  G) doxycycline

  H) metronidazole

  I) Benzylpenicilin G

  
• Cytomegalovirus

  Diagnosis: Serology - CMV in urine.

  Treatment: Ganciclovir