TCN Microbiology - Chapter 30 - Bacterial Diseases of the Urogenital Tract
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PsiFire on March 21, 2012
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Key terms and definitions from The College Network's Microbiology book - Chapter 30.
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 cervicitis | Inflammation of the uterine cervix. |
| chancre | A small hard painless nodule at the site of entry of a pathogen (as in syphilis). |
| chlamydia | A sexually transmitted infection caused by bacteria of the genus Chlamydia. |
| energy parasites | Host cells from which ATP is transported. |
| general paresis | Dementia due to syphilis. |
| gonococcus | The pus-producing bacterium that causes gonorrhea. |
| gonorrhea | Disease caused by Neisseria gonorrhoeae. Males experience urethritis and dysuria with pus-like exudate. Females develop cervicitis. |
| gummas | Painful, noncontagious, rubbery mass of tissue in organs & on skin. Seen in the tertiary stage of Syphillis. |
| inclusion conjunctivitis | Eye infection caused in newborns by chlamydia trachomatis, called as such because of inclusions (endosomal bags of growing Chlamydia) seen in the cytoplasm of eye cells, causes inflammation and can be transmitted from an untreated, infected mother to her baby. |
| nongonococcal urethritis | Sexually transmitted urethritis (usually caused by chlamydia). |
| PID | Pelvic inflammatory disease. May lead to infertility due to scar tissue in the fallopian tubes. |
| pilin | The protein the comprises pili. |
| reservoir | Anything (a person or animal or plant or substance) in which an infectious agent normally lives and multiplies. |
| salpingitis | Inflammation of a Fallopian tube (usually the result of infection spreading from the vagina or uterus) or of a Eustachian tube. |
| syphilis | Disease caused by Treponema pallidum. |
| trachoma | A chronic contagious viral disease marked by inflammation of the conjunctiva and cornea of the eye and the formation of scar tissue. |
| urethritis | Inflammation of the urethra. |
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