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- What is agent of syphilis??(the great pox)
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treponema pallidum
spirochette - Describe the three stages of syphilis???
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1st stage -primary syphilis-chancre2-6 weeks
2nd stage fever flue like swollen lymph nodes patchy hair, skin rash several weeks
3rd stage tertiary syphilis - What is gumma
- a weakening of major blood vessels causing them to bulge and burst gets in spinal cord and alter judgement
- How many cases of Syphilis per year???
- 46,000
- congenital syphilis is what?
- sypholis spirochettes (treponema pallidum) penetrate placenta and babies suffer defects like impaired vision,notched peg shaped teeth deafness(called Hutchinson's triad)
- Diagnosis of Syphilis???
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Wasserman's test and
treponimal AB test - What is agent of gonorrhea.??? and desription???
- Neisseria gonorrheae a small gram negative diplococcus
- Symptoms of Gonorrhea??
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Female= reddened cervix, abdominal pain burning,sesation during urination follopian tubes can be damaged PID some women asymptomatic
Men= tingling then pain urinating discharge, -
What is gonococcal pharyngitis?
proctitis
gonococcal opthalmia? -
Gonorrhea of the pharnyx
" " " rectum
" ' " eyes in baby passing thru birth canal - treatment of gonorrhea???
- Penicillin some strains resis. so spectinomycin,silver nitrate (eyes)Erythromicin
- How many cases of Gonorrhea??
- 350,000
- Chlamydia Another name for???
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nongonococcal urethritis
NGU - The agent of Chlamydia???
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chlamydia trachomatis -Small organism
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Symptoms of chlamydia
incubation??
treatment??
diagnosis?? -
mild gonorrhea like symptoms
5000,000 cases
burning discharge in males
incubation1-3 weeks
erythromycin
flourescent AB test