This document discusses several common genital infections including pediculosis pubis, scabies, molluscum contagiosum, condylomata acuminata, vulvar infections, genital ulcers, mycoplasma genitalium, vaginitis, HIV, chancroid, syphilis, gonorrhea, and chlamydia. For each infection, it provides information on causative agent, clinical features, diagnosis, and treatment. The document serves as a reference for medical students to learn about sexually transmitted infections and genital diseases.
6. Transmitted by sexual contact and shared
towels.
Clinical features : vulvar rash and itching
Diagnosis : Lice and eggs can be found in the
pubic hair
Treatment : Permethrin
7.
8. Transmitted through close contact or fomites
Clinical features : Intense burning, itching
(severe at night), papules/vesicles/burrows
Diagnosis : Microscopy
Treatment : Premethrin
9.
10. Caused by pox virus
Clinical features : Small domed vesicle with
central umblication. White waxy material can
be expressed out of it
Diagnosis : Giemsa staining of the discharge
Treatment : Evacuation of white material,
excision of the nodule, Monesel’s solution
11.
12. Aka veneral warts
Caused by HPV
Associated with vulval, vaginal and cervical
cancers
Treatment : Podophyllin
13.
14. Caused by Haemophilus ducreyi
Clinical features : Papule Pustule Ulcer
Diagnosis : Gram staining showing
extracellular “school of fish”
Treatment : Azihromycin
20. Caused by Chlamydia trachomatis
Clinical features : Vaginal discharge, dysuria,
frequency of micturition, vaginitis, salphingitis,
infertility.
Diagnosis : Fluorescein conjugated monoclonal
antibody in immunofluorescene tests on smear
from secretions
Treatment : Tetracyclin and clindamycin
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22. Most common cause of pruritis vulvae
Clinical features : Profuse, thin, creamy or
greeny and frothy discharge, strawberry
vagina
Diagnosis : Wet film stained with Gram stain or
Leishman stain, culture
Treatment : Metronidazole