ABC of Sexually Transmitted Infections (eBook)

Dr Rogstad is Consultant Physician, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Sheffield, UK

Contributors ix

Preface xi

1 Sexually Transmitted Infections: Why are they Important? 1
Kevin A Fenton and Karen E Rogstad

2 STI Control and Prevention 11
Frances Cowan and Gill Bell

3 Provision and Modernisation of Sexual Health Services 16
Christopher K Fairley

4 The Sexual Health Consultation in Primary and Secondary Care 21
Cecilia Priestley

5 Examination Techniques and Clinical Sampling 26
Katrina Perez and Vincent Lee

6 Main Presentations of Sexually Transmitted Infections in Male Patients 29
John Richens

7 Other Conditions Affecting the Male Genitalia 35
Sarah Edwards and Chris Bunker

8 Vaginal Discharge: Causes, Diagnosis, and Treatment 42
Phillip Hay

9 Pelvic Inflammatory Disease and Pelvic Pain 49
Jonathan D C Ross

10 Vulval Diseases 53
Pat Munday

11 Sexually Transmitted Infections and HIV in Pregnancy 59
Janet Wilson

12 Genital Ulcer Disease 64
Raj Patel and Nadi Gupta

13 Syphilis: Clinical Features, Diagnosis, and Management 70
Patrick French

14 Genital Growths and Infestations 78
Clare L N Woodward and Angela J Robinson

15 Viral Hepatitis 84
M Gary Brook

16 Systemic Manifestations of STIs 90
Elizabeth Carlin

17 HIV 95
Ian Williams, David Daniels, Keerti Gedela, Aparna Briggs and Anna Pryce

18 Diagnosis of Sexually Transmitted Infections 110
Sarah Alexander and Monique Andersson

19 Contraception 115
Rak Nandwani and Alison Bigrigg

20 Care of Specific Risk Groups 123
Paul A Fox and Karen E Rogstad

21 Sexual Health Care in Resource Poor Settings 127
David A Lewis

22 Vaccinations, Treatments, and Postexposure Prophylaxis 132
Ashini Jayasuriya

23 The Internet as a Resource for STI Education and Information 141
Claudia Estcourt and John Saunders

Appendices: Proformas for Taking Sexual Histories 145

Appendix 1: Male sexual history proforma 145

Appendix 2: Female sexual history proforma 146

Appendix 3: Assessment proforma for young people attending sexual health services 147

Index 149

"The BMJ do this very well - produce a short, sharp, focussed and generally excellent brief reference work on anything from accident and emergency to X-ray ... The book is almost faultless: failure to achieve ten out of ten is because of the lack of a glossary for the scores of technical terms. Each chapter is superbly, positively, and concisely written, with copious (and often gory) photographs, tables and figures." (British Journal of Cardiology, 2011)