STDs Caused by Bacteria MCQ - Practice Questions with Answers

1. Disease: Syphilis
Pathogen: Treponema pallidum
Symptoms:

• First stage is marked by ulcer or chancre on the genitals, swelling of local lymph glands
• In the second stage, chancre is healed. There are skin lesions, rashes, hair loss, swollen joints and flu-like illness occurs.
• In the tertiary stage, chronic ulcers appear on the palate, nose and lower leg.
• There can be paralysis, brain damage, blindness, heart trouble and aortic impairment.
• In the latent syphilis, there is no evidence of the disease.

Diagnosis: 

• Diagnosed by clinical symptoms, microscopic examination and antibody detection.
• Transmission:
• The disease spread through sexual contact and from mother to child.

Incubation Period: 10-90 Days
Treatment: 

• It is curable through appropriate antibiotics.

2. Disease: Gonorrhoea
Pathogen: Neisseria gonorrhoeae 
Symptoms: 

• The pathogen lives in the genital tubes, produces pus-containing discharge, pain around genitals and burning sensation during urination.
• It may lead to arthritis and eye infection in children of gonorrhoea afflicted mothers.

Diagnosis:

• It is done by clinical symptoms.
• Gram staining of discharge and urine culture.

Transmission: 

• It is spread through sexual contact, common toilets and clothes.

Incubation Period: 2-5 Days
Treatment:

• It can be cured through use of appropriate antibiotics.