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  2. Stye - Wikipedia

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    Large styes may interfere with one's vision. Eyelid cellulitis is another potential complication of eye styes, which is a generalized infection of the eyelid. Progression of a stye to a systemic infection (spreading throughout the body) is extremely rare, and only a few instances of such spread have been recorded.

  3. Sexually transmitted infection - Wikipedia

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    [7] [8] The term sexually transmitted infection is generally preferred over sexually transmitted disease or venereal disease, as it includes cases with no symptomatic disease. [9] Symptoms and signs of STIs may include vaginal discharge, penile discharge, ulcers on or around the genitals, and pelvic pain. [1] Some STIs can cause infertility. [1]

  4. Trichomoniasis - Wikipedia

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    Trichomoniasis is a sexually transmitted infection (STI) most often spread by vaginal, oral, or anal sex. [1] It can also spread through genital touching (manual sex). [1] Infected people may spread the disease even when symptoms are absent. [2]

  5. Your teen got an STI. Now what? - AOL

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    Diane S. (last name withheld for privacy reasons), an Illinois mom of three, tells Yahoo Life she felt “utterly lost” when her 16-year-old daughter developed cold sores that turned out to be ...

  6. Herpes gladiatorum - Wikipedia

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    Herpes gladiatorum is one of the most infectious of herpes-caused diseases, and is transmissible by skin-to-skin contact. The disease was first described in the 1960s in the New England Journal of Medicine. It is caused by contagious infection with human herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1), [1] which more commonly causes oral herpes (cold sores).

  7. Human eye - Wikipedia

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    The pupil of the human eye can range in size from 2 mm to over 8 mm to adapt to the environment. The human eye can detect a luminance from 10 −6 cd/m 2, or one millionth (0.000001) of a candela per square meter to 10 8 cd/m 2 or one hundred million (100,000,000) candelas per square meter.

  8. Infectious period - Wikipedia

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    Together these two factors influence how much and how long pathogens will be released among a population from an infected individual, two important metrics to measure the infectiousness of a disease. If the infectious period starts before the onset of the symptoms of the disease (i.e. the end of the incubation period ), then asymptomatic ...

  9. Neisseria gonorrhoeae - Wikipedia

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    It causes the sexually transmitted genitourinary infection gonorrhea [6] as well as other forms of gonococcal disease including disseminated gonococcemia, septic arthritis, and gonococcal ophthalmia neonatorum. N. gonorrhoeae is oxidase positive and a microaerophile that is capable of surviving phagocytosis and growing inside neutrophils. [6]