Intended for infectious disease specialists and internists, primary care practitioners, obstetricians, gynaecologists, urologists and physician assistants, this work looks at various aspects of sexually transmitted diseases.
Section 1 Patient management: interviewing the patient; examining the
patient; counselling of STD patients; prevention issues. Section 2 Selected
syndromes: urethritis, epididymitis and prostatitis in men; vaginal discharge
and vaginitis in women (vulvitis, dyspareunia and cervicitis); pelvic
inflammatory disease; genital ulcer disease; cutaneous lesions; syphilis;
infestations; AIDS; basic coverage of diagnostic issues; other syndromes
(including hepatitis). section 3 STDs in special populations: STDs in
pregnancy; STDs in gay men; STDs in paediatric populations; STDs in
adolescents; immunocompromised patients. Section 4 Agents causing STDs: h
ducreyi; t pallidum; n gonorrhoea; c trachomatis; herpes simplex virus; human
papilloma virus; trichomonas; HIV; miscellaneous; STD organisms,
campylobacter; gardnerella; hepatitis etc. Section 5 Laboratory diagnosis:
approaches to diagnosis - principles, specimens, collection, and transport;
organisms. section 6 Treatment guidelines for STDs: syndromes and agents -
annotated version of CDC guidelines.
