Quiz Questions

Please use the following questions to help further your understanding of chlamydia, and reinforce your learning.

Question 1

You are a nurse practitioner for a Women’s health clinic, you come in and tell the patient that she has tested positive for a Chlamydia infection. She tells you that her friend had chlamydia and told her that it causes a weird vaginal discharge. She questions the result saying she didn’t have any weird discharge. What would be the best response?

A.) The lab must have switched the results, let me run the test again

B.) The majority of patients with chlamydia are asymptomatic

C.) Vaginal discharge is not actually a symptom of chlamydia

D.) Vaginal discharge only occurs when chlamydia progresses to pelvic inflammatory disease

Question 2

Based on patient interview and physical exam, you suspect your patient has a sexually transmitted infection. As the NP, how would you best differentiate between chlamydia, gonorrhea, and trichomoniasis to give your patient an accurate diagnosis?

A.) Dysuria

B.) Vaginal bleeding

C.) Nucleic Acid Amplification Testing

D.) Vaginal discharge

Question 3

True or False: Condom use is an ineffective method for preventing the spread of chlamydia?

A.) True

B.) False

Question 4

Which of the following is a risk associated with prolonged or untreated chlamydia?

A.) Ectopic pregnancy

B.) Increased risk for contracting HIV

C.) Development of pelvic inflammatory disease

D.) All of the above

Question 5

Think back to the pathophysiology of a Chlamydia infection. How does Chlamydia trachomatis infect the cells of the urogenital tract?

A.) Elementary bodies of the bacteria are taken up by urogenital cells through endocytosis, where they convert to their metabolically active form and replicate

B.) The Chlamydia virus attaches to the host cell and injects its viral RNA into the cell to be replicated

C.) The bacteria do not invade the cell, it instead releases an exotoxin that damages cell membranes, initiating an inflammatory response

D.) Reticulate bodies of the bacteria are taken up by urogenital cells through endocytosis, where they convert to their metabolically active form and replicate