Assignment task: Differential Diagnoses:
Differential diagnosis is the process of identifying a disease from a list of possible diseases that fit the information derived from examining a patient. Your job will be to synthesize information from a patient whose main presenting symptoms are consistent with a microbial disease of the reproductive system. Use the Chapter 26 Disease Tables 26.1, 26.3 and Diseases Associated with AIDS and your knowledge about microbial diseases of the urinary and reproductive systems to identify the patient's risk factors and symptoms, evaluate diagnostic evidence, formulate and test a diagnosis about the pathogen responsible for the patient's woes, and suggest a course of treatment.