Sexually Transmitted Disease
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What is a Sexually transmitted disease?

Sexually transmitted disease (STD), a contagious disease usually acquired by sexual intercourse or genital contact. These diseases are among the most common communicable diseases, and the incidence has risen in recent years despite improved methods of diagnosis and treatment. Historically, the five venereal diseases were gonorrhea, syphilis, chancroid, granuloma inguinale, and lymphogranuloma venereum. To these have been added scabies, herpes genitalis and anorectal herpes and warts, pediculosis, trichomoniasis, genital candidiasis, molluscum contagiosum, nonspecific urethritis, chlamydial infections, cytomegalovirus, and human immunodeficiency virus..


Record Number: BJ53784584

SOURCE:
Mosby's Medical, Nursing, & Allied Health Dictionary.
  Edition 5, 1998 p7F48.

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