Microbiology with Diseases by Body System (4th Edition)

Published by Benjamin Cummings
ISBN 10: 032191855X
ISBN 13: 978-0-32191-855-0

Chapter 24 - Microbial Diseases of the Urinary and Reproductive Systems - Clinical Case Study: A Painful Problem - Questions - Page 767: 2

Answer

The patient must have acquired the disease from one or many of his sexual partners. He has admitted to having had unprotected sex with two or three women because they had said to him that they do not have any STDs.

Work Step by Step

Women with gonorrhea are mostly asymptomatic. So it is easy to think that they have no STDs.
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