Emerging sexually transmitted diseases: Hepatitis C, lymphogranuloma venereum (LGV), and Mycoplasma genitalium infections

Recently, several infections have emerged as important causes of sexually transmitted diseases, particularly involving men that have sex with men (MSM) and/or HIV-infected patients.1 Clinicians should be aware of these infections as in some instances they have not been recognized as being transmitted through sexual contact (e.g., hepatitis C)1,2 or the diagnosis may not be considered at all as in the case of LGV proctocolitis, which frequently mimics inflammatory bowel disease.1,3–7 Primary care providers who treat non-gonococcal urethritis (NGU) should also be aware that an NGU that does not respond to treatment with doxycycline or azithromycin may be caused by Mycoplasma genitalium, an organism that may not respond to conventional therapy for NGU, is more difficult to treat and usually responses to fluoroquinolones.
Source: Disease a Month - Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Source Type: research