Physiological Adaptation Q 15

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A client comes to the clinic for treatment of recurrent pelvic inflammatory disease. The nurse recognizes that this condition most frequently follows which type of infection?

  

     A. Trichomoniasis

     B. Chlamydia

     C. Staphylococcus

     D. Streptococcus

    

    

Correct Answer: B. Chlamydia

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Option B: Chlamydial infections are one of the most frequent causes of salpingitis or pelvic inflammatory disease. Chlamydial bacteria could travel up toward the vagina or cervix into the reproductive organs.

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Option A: Trichomoniasis is a very common sexually transmitted disease, but it rarely predisposes to pelvic inflammatory disease.

Options C & D: Staphylococcus and streptococcus may cause PID but it rarely occurs.

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