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Infectious diseases

A. Scenario: The manager of a local health clinic is preparing informational material for the community on various health subjects. He is choosing and research one specific STI that is prevalent in our community. We need to create a brochure that highlights the risk factors, mode of transmission, and population most at risk (i.e. Asian males between the ages of 16 and 24), how to recognize signs/symptoms, details about ways to stop the spread of the infection, and how to get treatment.

1. We should include the common name, scientific name, mode of transmission, and any vaccines available against the STI. 
2. We should describe the incubation period after transmission, symptoms, and infectiousness, and include the typical course of disease once acquired, treatment options, and morbidity rate of the STI if no treatment is sought.

B. Choosing two infections caused by different pathogens that have similar symptoms, which examples include two infections, both of which can be transmitted through sexual contact such as, bacterial vaginosis and vaginal fungal infection (although not STIs these conditions are classified as sexually associated) or herpes and gonorrhea which can both cause sores in the genital area?

1. What is the organism, etiology, transmission, symptoms, clinical signs, treatment, and prognosis of each disease?
2. What examinations, diagnostic tests, or characteristics of the organisms would allow medical professionals to distinguish between the two and deliver an accurate diagnosis to the patient?
3. If the patient were misdiagnosed with one infection while they actually have the other, how would they be treated and what would be the effect (or absence of effect) of the treatment? How can clinicians attain more accuracy in diagnosis and treatment for disease?

Center for Disease Control and Prevention. (2019, April 12). Vaginal Candidiasis