Penile Testing for Gonorrhea and Chlamydia

Dr. Shafer: We should be sending a test for gonorrhea and chlamydia in the form of a NAT test or a PCR test, which can be a swab or a urine test. Dr. Varner: What's your threshold for treating STIs empirically in the emergency department? And what about rectal and pharyngeal testing? So which patients do we need to send swabs off forpharyngeal swab or rectal swab for? That's a little bit about all the different common STI bugs and their treatments.