When a person has symptoms such as thick yellow discharge and dysuria, the medical officer may suspect that the person has:
a. syphilis.
b. gonorrhoea.
c. chlamydia.
d. human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).
b
Gonorrhoea is caused by the bacterium Neisseria gonorrhoea and can present similarly to chlamydia; however, it
tends to be more symptomatic. Diagnosis is based on the
presence of a thick yellow urethral discharge and dysuria
which develops within a week of infection and is confirmed
with a urethral swab and Gram-stain spear or clean catch of
urine.
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