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A 20-year-old male college student presents to the campus health clinic. The patient reports no significant past medical history. He has been experiencing painful urination for several days and yellow discharge from his urethra. The nurse asks the student about his sexual activity. He reports engaging in unprotected sex, and is concerned that he may have contracted a sexually transmitted infection. The nurse sends a sample of the urethral discharge to the microbiology laboratory. The laboratory reports gram-negative diplococci and many neutrophils on the smear, suggestive of gonorrhea.The nurse provides education about prevention of future gonorrheal infection. Which of the following topics would be included in the teaching?

A pneumonia caused by Gram-positive diplococci is known as_______.

The most common type of virus leading to rhinitis is ________.

Inflammation of the liver with necrosis of the hepatocytes and swelling due to a mononuclear response is a disease called ________.

Which of the following statements is the correct definition of body composition?

Inflammation of the pharynx with pus-filled abscesses and swollen tonsils is known as________.

Infected animals shed Leptospira interrogans in their ________.

Formation of a pseudomembrane in the back of the throat is characteristic of this infection________.

The enzyme associated with the influenza virus that hydrolyzes the protective mucous coating of the respiratory tract is ________.

The most common causative agent of urinary tract infections is ________.