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Gonorrhea
* -Thick yellow or white discharge.
* affects both men and women in equal numbers.
* bacterial infection of the genital area that often has no symptoms
  - that causes a so-called infectious arthritis
  - sexually transmitted disease
* bacterium that can cause sterility, arthritis, and heart problems.
* can affect the liver joints and a woman's ability to have a baby.
* can also cause infertility in women
  - infect the rectum
* can be symptom-free
  - very dangerous to a person's health if it is left untreated
* can cause a sore throat
  - inflammation of the urinary tract in men and women
  - certainly affect the pregnancy by affecting the mom
  - even be fatal if complications such as pelvic infection or tubal pregnancy occur
  - infect men, women, and children
* can lead to infection of the urethra, cervix, rectum, and throat
  - pelvic inflammatory disease, difficulties in pregnancy and infertility
  - occur in the reproductive organs, urethra, rectum and throat
  - root on fingers, eyes and the throat
* can spread and cause complications
  - to the blood or joints
* case in point.
* causes a discharge, pain and sometimes tubal infection, fever and more severe illness
  - serious infections in women's fallopian tubes which can lead to sterility
* common infectious disease that is usually transmitted by intimate sexual contact.
* germ that most commonly grows in the cervix area.
* has no long term consequences if it is treated and cured.
* highly contagious sexually transmitted disease.
* infects millions each year.
* is an important public-health issue, especially for females of childbearing age.
* is an infection that is spread through sexual contact with another person
  - which is easily transmitted by sexual contact
* is caused by bacteria and is highly contagious
  - bacteria, and it is treated with antibiotics
* is caused by the bacteria gonococcus
  - bacterium neisseria gonorrhoeae
  - curable but if untreated can cause pelvic-inflammatory disease
* is curable with certain types of antibiotics
  - penicillin being the most effective antibiotic
* is diagnosed by laboratory culture and is treated with antibiotics
  - through examination of secretions from the penis or cervix
  - fairly common and does more damage to women than to men
  - highest among sexually active adolescents and young adults
  - now the most common of the reportable infectious diseases in the United States
  - once again life-threatening in Southeast Asia
  - one disease that attacks the prostate
* is one of the most common STDs, with one million new cases in the U.S. each year
  - infectious diseases in the world
  - sexually transmitted diseases
  - such bacterial infection that causes a so-called infectious arthritis
  - passed from one person to another during vaginal, anal, and oral sex
  - readily curable with antibiotics if detected early
  - reported more frequently from urban areas than from rural areas
  - spread between sex partners during oral sex, intercourse or the sharing of sex toys
* is spread by having oral vaginal or anal sex with a person who already had the infection
  - vaginal, anal and oral intercourse
  - directly by person to person contact
* is spread through direct sexual contact with an infected person
  - oral, anal, or vaginal contact with someone who has gonorrhea
  - intercourse, vaginal, oral, and anal
* is spread through unprotected oral, vaginal, or anal sex with an infected person
  - vaginal, oral or anal intercourse
  - still very common and increasing in frequency
  - the cause of the most cases
* is the most common cause of arthritis in the adolescent
  - co-infection with adult inclusion conjunctivitis
  - commonly reported infectious disease in the United States
  - frequently reported infectious disease in the United States
* is transmitted between humans through intimate contact of the mucous membrane
  - from person to person through direct contact, usually sexual
  - through sexual intercourse
* is transmitted through vaginal, anal or oral sex with an infected partner
  - oral and anal intercourse
  - treatable with antibiotic therapy
* is treated aggressively with antibiotics
  - and can be cured with antibiotics
* is treated with antibiotic drugs taken orally or by an injection
  - drugs, given either by mouth or as a shot
  - pills
  - antibiotics but many strains have become resistant
  - antibiotics, taken by mouth or given as a shot
  - medicine that is injected into the buttocks
  - usually symptomatic in men but often asymptomatic in women
  - venereal catarrh, inflammation of the urethral mucous membrane
* kidney-shaped bacterium that grows in pairs.
* major cause of pelvic inflammatory disease, infertility, and ectopic pregnancy.
* often goes hand in hand with another sexually transmitted disease, chlamydia.
* often occurs together with chlamydia and syphilis
  - produces no symptoms in women, except vaginal itching or discharge
* requires immediate medical attention and is diagnosed with special tests.
* serious bacterial infection.
* sexually transmitted bacterial infection of the sex organs, throat and rectum.
* sexually transmitted disease caused by the gonococcus bacteria
  - that causes infection of the genitals
* very common infectious disease
  - sexually transmitted disease seen in both males and females