∞ generated and posted on 2016.03.03 ∞
Diseases caused by Chlamydia trachomatis, Gardnerella vaginalis, Neisseria gonorrhoeae, Treponema pallidum, and Trichomonas vaginalis, etc., as well as various viruses.
| A Sexually Transmitted Disease is one that often or typically is transmitted in the course of sexual relations and a number of pathogens are transmitted predominantly in the course of such sexual interactions. |
Sexually transmitted diseases are subject to especially intimate direct contact transmission. The list presented above is a partial listing of sexually transmitted pathogens of humans.
Note that not all sexually transmitted diseases are exclusively sexually transmitted. For example, a number of bloodborne pathogens, such as and , are also sexually transmitted.