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Sexually transmitted infection. A sexually transmitted infection ( STI ), also referred to as a sexually transmitted disease ( STD) and the older term venereal disease ( VD ), is an infection that is spread by sexual activity, especially vaginal intercourse, anal sex, oral sex, or sometimes manual sex. [1] [5] [6] STIs often do not initially ...
Standard Media Group LLC. Standard Media Group is an American broadcast and digital media company based in Nashville, Tennessee. Standard Media was founded in 2018 by Deborah A. McDermott, who serves as the company's CEO. Previously, McDermott was the chief operating officer of Media General and CEO-president of Young Broadcasting.
Schaudinn & Hoffmann, 1905. Treponema pallidum, formerly known as Spirochaeta pallida, is a microaerophilic spirochaete bacterium with subspecies that cause the diseases syphilis, bejel (also known as endemic syphilis), and yaws. It is known to be transmitted only among humans [1] and baboons. [2] It is a helically coiled microorganism usually ...
Syphilis ( / ˈsɪfəlɪs /) is a sexually transmitted infection caused by the bacterium Treponema pallidum subspecies pallidum. [1] The signs and symptoms of syphilis vary depending in which of the four stages it presents (primary, secondary, latent, and tertiary). [1] [2] The primary stage classically presents with a single chancre (a firm ...
IEEE 802.3 is a working group and a collection of standards defining the physical layer and data link layer 's media access control (MAC) of wired Ethernet. The standards are produced by the working group of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). This is generally a local area network (LAN) technology with some wide area ...
Neisseria gonorrhoeae, also known as gonococcus (singular) or gonococci (plural), is a species of Gram-negative diplococci bacteria isolated by Albert Neisser in 1879. It causes the sexually transmitted genitourinary infection gonorrhea as well as other forms of gonococcal disease including disseminated gonococcemia, septic arthritis, and gonococcal ophthalmia neonatorum.
T. vaginalis. Binomial name. Trichomonas vaginalis. ( Donné 1836) Trichomonas vaginalis is an anaerobic, flagellated protozoan parasite and the causative agent of a sexually transmitted disease called trichomoniasis. It is the most common pathogenic protozoan that infects humans in industrialized countries. [2]
It is estimated that more than two-thirds of the global population has herpes, though it mostly lies dormant. Human papillomavirus infection. 800,000,000 [4] Chlamydia. 450,000,000 [5] Hepatitis B. 356,000,000 [6] Preventable with the Hepatitis B vaccine. Gonorrhea.