... infection, enteritis is often attributable to Giardia
Chapter 124. Sexually Transmitted Infections:
Overview and Clinical Approach
(Part 19)
Ulcerative Genital or Perianal Lesions: Treatment ... treatment of sexually transmitted
causes of genital ulcers decreases further transmission; and because some patients
do not return for test results and treatment....
...
Source: From RM Ballard, in KK Holmes et al (eds):
Sexually Transmitted
Diseases, 4th ed. New York, McGraw-Hill, 2008.
Table 124- 7 Clinical Features of Genital Ulcers
Feature
Syp
hilis ... relatively
Sero
us,
erythematou
s,
Puru
lent, blee
ds
easily
Variable,
nonvascular
Red
and velvety,
bleeds
readily
nonvascula
r
nonvascular
Indurati
on
Fir
m
None
Soft...
... with the initial episode of genital erpes or
Chapter 124. Sexually Transmitted Infections:
Overview and Clinical Approach
(Part 18)
Table 124- 8 Initial Management of Genital or Perianal ... primary syphilis. If dark-field examination and a rapid
serologic test for syphilis are initially negative and the patient will comply with
follow-up and sexual abstinen...
... for preventive and clinical interventions
against
sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). [
Adapted from HT Waller and MA Piot:
Bull World Health Organ 41:75, 1969 and 4
3:1, 1970; and from "Resource ... males and females against all STIs that have been
examined, including HIV, HPV, and HSV infections as well as gonorrhea
and chlamydial infection. The only exceptions...
... and valacyclovir for
suppression of recurrent gen
ital herpes and viral shedding. Sex Transm Dis
33:529, 2006 [PMID: 16540883]
Chapter 124. Sexually Transmitted Infections:
Overview and Clinical ... women and teenage girls attending STD clinics and for sexually
active teens and young women from areas of high gonorrhea prevalence.
Multiplex NAATs that combine scr...
... Infections:
Overview and Clinical Approach
(Part 1)
Harrison's Internal Medicine > Chapter 124. Sexually Transmitted
Infections: Overview and Clinical Approach
Classification and ... ectoparasites, and fungi.
b
Among U.S. patien
ts for whom a risk factor can be ascertained, most
hepatitis B virus infections are transmitted sexually or by in...
... above questions):
Chapter 124. Sexually Transmitted Infections:
Overview and Clinical Approach
(Part 3)
STD care and management begin with risk assessment and proceed to
clinical assessment, ... to discuss taboo topics.
Table 124- 3 Ten-Question STD/HIV Risk Assessment
Framing Statement:
In order to provide the best care for you today and to
understand y...
... (DGI) and
Reiter's syndrome. Although digital examination of the prostate gland
seldom contributes to the evaluation of sexually active young men with
Chapter 124. Sexually Transmitted Infections: ... Transmitted Infections:
Overview and Clinical Approach
(Part 4)
Risk assessment is followed by clinical assessment (elicitation of
information on specif...
... initial therapy.
Chapter 124. Sexually Transmitted Infections:
Overview and Clinical Approach
(Part 5)
1. Treat urethritis promptly, while test results are pending.
Table 124- 4 summarizes ... are pending.
Table 124- 4 summarizes the steps in management of sexually active men
with urethral discharge and/ or dysuria.
Table 124- 4 Management of Urethral Dischar...
... gonorrhoeae. Gonorrhea and
chlamydial infection should be sought by specific tests (e.g., NAATs on the first
Chapter 124. Sexually Transmitted Infections:
Overview and Clinical Approach
(Part 6)
Epididymitis ... tuberculosis. In
sexually active men under age 35, acute epididymitis is caused most frequently by
C. trachomatis and less commonly by N. gonorrhoeae...