Sexually transmitted diseases (STD)

Infections that are transmitted through sexual activity.

An infection that is spread primarily through sexual contact. Common STDs include gonorrhea, syphilis, genital herpes. Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS), chlamydia, and genital wans.

Those infectious diseases contracted through intimate sexual contact, including candidiasis, chancroid, gonorrhea, granuloma inguinale, herpes, lymphogranuloma venereum, syphilis, and acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS).

A disease or infection transmitted from an infected person to another person during sexual intercourse.

Infectious conditions spread by sexual contact, including syphilis, Chlamydia, AIDS, gonorrhea, and others.

Any infectious disease that is spread from one person to another by means of sexual contact.

A large group of disease syndromes that are transmitted by sexual contact and sexual activities; also known as STDs. Sexually transmitted diseases include more than 25 different infectious diseases that are spread from one person to another via behavior involving the genitals, with or without apparent symptoms and signs in the genital area. The term sexually transmitted diseases, or STDs, includes a wider range of illnesses and infectious syndromes than the previously used and outdated term, “venereal disease.”

A disease which may be transmitted by sexual contact. The “classical” sexually transmitted (venereal) diseases were syphilis and gonorrhea. Today, acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), genital herpes, chlamydia, and hepatitis B are also included.

Infections transmitted by sexual contact (heterosexual and homosexual). In the United Kingdom they are treated in genito-urinary medicine (GUM) clinics. The incidences of these diseases are more common among people who have several sexual partners, as STDs are very infectious; some of the major STDs, particularly AIDS/HIV, are also transmitted by blood and so can result from needle-sharing by drug addicts, or by transfusion. Older STDs-syphilis, gonorrhoea and chancroid now comprise only 10 per cent of all such diseases treated in STD clinics: these clinics also treat patients with chlamydia, trichomoniasis, herpes genitalis, molluscum contagiosum and genital warts. Scabies and pubic lice can also be transmitted by sexual intercourse, and hepatitis B is also recognized as a STD.

Any disease that may be acquired as a result of sexual intercourse or other intimate contact with an infected individual. A more inclusive term than “venereal disease,” STDs include disease caused by bacteria, viruses, protozoa, fungi, and ectoparasites.

Sexually transmitted disease (STD) is a disease spread primarily through sexual intercourse but also through other intimate behavior and sex play and, occasionally, non-sexually.

Any disease that spreads from one person to another during sexual intercourse.

Diseases spread through sexual contact, such as AIDS, chlamydia, gonorrhea, and herpes.