MICB 202 Study Guide - Trimethoprim, Diplococcus, Septic Shock
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Prevention: condoms are effective in preventing the transmission of gonorrhoea, contact tracing to identify source contacts (those who infected the index patient) useful in identifying asymptomatic individuals or those who ignored symtoms used to identify contacts who were exposed to index patients and may have become infected, ophthalmia neonatorum can be prevented by antibacterial eye drops. *rarely but a possibility, the bacteria can disseminate further and cause gonoccal arthritis. Cervical vaginal discharge, painful urination, abnormal menstrual bledding, pelvic pain. Vaccines not available because of extensive surface antigen variation. Developme nt of effective vaccine hampered by lack of suitable animal model. Ciprofloxacin (but also gaining resistance by acquiring plasmids encoding resistance) Opportunistic pathogen transient member of normal flora (in nasopharynx with no adverse effects), only causes disease in debilitated hosts. Penicillin and penicillin derivatives used to work well; though penicillin resistance strains are becoming very common.
