“Can a blood test detect gonorrhea?”
I'm 22 years old, and I'm afraid that I have contracted gonorrhea from my girlfriend, who was tested last week. Can a blood test diagnose gonorrhea?
3 Answers
Gonorrhea can be diagnosed by testing the urine, urethral (men), or endocervical and vaginal (for women) specimens using nucleic acid amplification testing (NAAT). Also is diagnosed using gonorrhea culture which requires endocervical or urethral swab specimen. Thank you.
Gonorrrhea is confirmed by obtaining a sample of a discharge or a scraping of a lesion in the genital area and submitting it for microbiological culture studies. It can also be tentatively recognized by direct microscopic examination of a discharge, then confirmed by microbiological culture studies. Blood is not usually utilized to diagnose the infection.
Yes.
