STD-abdominal pain

Sexually Transmitted Disease Infections

Dr Patsy Lill
Professor Emerita
University of South Carolina School of Medicine

Abdominal pain

A 19-year-old woman presents with pain in her lower abdomen, back pain, painful urination, and painful sexual intercourse. She also complains of nausea and vomiting and that the symptoms got worse during her recent period. Physical examination shows a mucopurulent vaginal discharge, cervical motion tenderness and a temperature of 37.9. Below is an image from a similar case.

The organism MOST likely to be causing the condition is

1. Treponema pallidum
2. Calymmatobacterium granulomatis
3. Haemophilus ducreyi
4. Chlamydia trachomatis

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