Exam 20: Urogenital and Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Cytomegalovirus causes _____.

Cystitis is inflammation of the _____.

Toxic shock syndrome is associated with all of the following except:

Which is an immune complex disease?

In the Tuskegee Syphilis Study (1932-1972),399 poor and mostly illiterate African-American sharecroppers were denied treatment for syphilis and not even told they had syphilis. What is the treatment for syphilis? Why was it unethical for the Tuskegee scientists to withhold treatment? Do you think researchers of HIV in developing countries should be required to give anti-retroviral treatment to their test subjects? Do you think HIV studies in developing countries that don't provide antiretroviral treatment to all their test subjects is comparable to the Tuskegee Syphilis study?

Leptospirosis is characterized by all of the following except:

Which is a true statement about fetal and infant CMV infections?

Donovan bodies are diagnostic mononuclear cells from lesions associated with:

Chlamydia trachomatis is the causative agent of _____.

A patient has a UTI with a low number of bacteria in the patient's urine sample and only one pathogen was detected.What condition(s)could have led to the infection?

Are the organisms that cause vaginitis part of the normal microflora or does their presence always lead to disease? Why would a physician prescribe a douche of live-culture yogurt after a course of antibiotics? Are the organisms that cause toxic shock syndrome (TSS)part of the normal vaginal flora? If toxic shock syndrome is supposed to come from tampons why do men,children and postmenopausal women now account for most cases of TSS?

Pelvic inflammatory disease is a complication in 50% of the cases of ______.

Where are the normal microflora that protect the urogenital organs located?

The correct progression of a typical case of syphilis is:

A major cause of UTIs is _____.

Which of the following is the correct match of the disease and organism?

Secondary syphilis is characterized by the appearance of _____.

Syphilis is caused by _____.

Chancroid is characterized by a _____.

Herpes infection symptoms are most successfully managed with daily doses of _____.