8^th Pathology and Infectious Disease Conference

Urinary Tract Infections & STIs

The urinary tract infections are the infections that influence the parts of the urinary tract. The most common causative agent of urinary tract infections is Escherichia coli, whereas other bacteria may rarely be the cause. The bacteria which cause urinary tract infections generally enter into the bladder through the urethra. However, the infection may also occur via blood or lymph. The increased immunity of urinary pathogens to quinolones has been reported worldwide and might be the effect of overuse and misuse of quinolones. It is important to differentiate between the sexually transmitted disease and sexually transmitted infections. The STDs are the medical infections that are transmitted through sexual contact. But people, who got infected, don’t always encounter any symptoms or develop their infection into a disease. That’s what the term “STI” is. Approximately all the STIs spread through the contact with infected body fluids such as blood, vaginal fluid or semen. Some bacterial STDs like Chlamydia, Gonorrhoea etc. can be controlled but not cured and if anyone gets the viral STD like HIV/AIDS, Genital herpes etc. they are always going to have it.