Essentials Of Human Disease 2nd Edition by Leonard Crowley

Exercise 16

A 35-year-old woman had unprotected sexual intercourse with a man she met at a party. About a week later she didn't feel well and had moderate pain in her left hip. She consulted a physician who aspirated fluid from the hip joint which was then cultured and reported as a gonococcal infection. She doesn't understand how a hip infection could have resulted from sexual contact. What would you tell her?