Know Your STDs . . .

Matching exercise

Match the items on the left to the items on the right.

Near epidemic in the mid-1970s, this STD is caused by a gram negative coccal microorganism.
This STD occurs primarily in low-income minorities and becomes a systemic infection without treatment.
The most common symptomatic STD in the US, this is frequently seen in sexually active young women.
This parasitic protozoan attacks squamous epithelium primarily infecting vaginal and urethral tissue with a yellow-green or grey-green discharge.
Highly contagious, this STD is caused by a parsite that attaches itself to the pubic hairs.
A STD that is common among homosexual men and affects the GI system producing sudden, explosive diarrhea, vomiting, and sulfuric burping that lasts for several days and even months.
A retrovirus which attacks the immune system which results in weight loss, recurrent fevers, neurologic abnormalities, recurrent pulmonary infiltrates and the development of opportunistic infections.
Caused by a variety of microbes, this STD commonly causes urethritis in males.
Characterized by prematurity, intrauterine growth retardation, bone marrow depression, retinal inflammation, glaucoma, and nephrotic syndrome, this STD is diagnosed during the first 2 years of life.
This STD is a sexually transmissible herpesvirus that causes mild illnesses in healthy individuals, but in its congenital form it causes intracranial cancifications, microencephaly, and hearing impairments.

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