TY - CHAP T1 - Sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) – Updating a concise overview for urologists T2 - Urogenital Infections and Inflammations AU - Schneede, Peter ED - Naber, Kurt G. N2 - Worldwide more than 1 million sexually transmitted infections (STIs) are acquired every day. Given the growing rate of antimicrobial resistance of STIs and otherwise the effective improvements in STD laboratory testing, in STI treatment, and in STI prevention in the last decades urologists need to be periodically updated in this field. This article straightforwardly continues an Urinary Tract Infection (UTI) Working Group (EAU) STD review, 2003, which has been updated in 2010, and which now has been fully-revised based on the recent national and international STI-guidelines. The 2016 version contents again the successful concept of a concise overview of STIs /STDs being of special interest for urologists, actualizes the recommendations for STI treatment, adds important data on recent antimicrobial resistances, and finally considers new aspects of preventive STI vaccines. The classical bacteria that cause venereal diseases (e.g. gonorrhea, syphilis, chancroid, and Granuloma inguinale) only account for a small proportion of all known STDs today. Other bacteria and viruses as well as yeasts, protozoa and epizoa must also be regarded as causative organisms of STD. Taken together; all sexually transmitted infections (STI) comprise more than 30 relevant STD pathogens. However, not all pathogens that can be sexually transmitted manifest diseases in the genitals (i.e. viral hepatitis) and not all infections of the genitals are exclusively sexually transmitted. Some STIs can also be spread through non-sexual means such as via blood or blood products (i.e. HIV). Concise information and tables summarising the diagnostic and therapeutic management of STDs allow a synoptic overview assisting the urologist’s clinical work. For more detailed information or questions concerning special considerations (i.e. HIV infection, pregnancy, infants, and allergy) the original guidelines and scientific literature must be looked up directly. Consequently this overview does not address the lists of relevant references, the levels of evidence, or the grades of recommendation. These are included in other chapters of this book or can be found in the recent international guidelines. PY - 2017 DA - 2017/12/19 DO - 10.5680/lhuii000006 LA - en L1 - https://books.publisso.de/en/system/getFile/42 UR - https://dx.doi.org/10.5680/lhuii000006 L2 - https://dx.doi.org/10.5680/lhuii000006 PB - German Medical Science GMS Publishing House CY - Duesseldorf ER -