Urethritis

Salpingitis

Pelvic inflammatory disease can be caused by a symptom of many infections. This disease involves pain in the lower abdomen, dysuria, vaginal discharge and fever. It can lead to infertility. 

Pelvic inflammatory disease

Lymphogranuloma venereum (LGV) is a sexually transmitted disease caused by *Chlamydia trachomatis*. The infection is extremely contagious and common on college campuses, and it is often asymptomatic or mildly symptomatic, presenting as swelling of regional lymph nodes.

Lymphogranuloma venereum

- lymphogranuloma venereum
- urethritis
- salpingitis
- pelvic inflammatory disease

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*Chlamydia trachomatis* can cause Nongonococcal urethritis. It also causes one of the most commonly diagnosed sexually transmitted infections, Chlamydia.  This bacterium can also cause an ocular disease, trachoma. The life cycle of *C. trachomatis* is shown below.

*Chlamydia trachomatis*

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Often people with nongonococcal urethritis are asymptomatic and do not know they carry the disease. But common symptoms are: 
- purulent discharge
- dysuria

When left untreated, nongonococcal urethritis can cause:
- Pelvic inflammatory disease
- salpingitis
- epididymitis
- prostatitis

Signs and symptoms of nongonococcal urethritis

- polymorphic outer-membrane autotransporter proteins
- stress reponse proteins
- type III secretion effector proteins

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