A Gram Stain Smear of a Patient's Urethral Discharge Reveals

A Gram stain smear of a patient's urethral discharge reveals the presence of Neisseria gonorrhoeae. The patient tells the nurse about recent sexual contact with a woman but says she did not appear to have any disease. In responding to the patient, the nurse explains that

A) many women are not aware they have gonorrhea because they often do not have symptoms of infection.
B) when gonorrhea infections occur in women, the disease affects only the ovaries and not the genital organs.
C) women develop subclinical cases of gonorrhea that do not cause tissue damage or clinical manifestations.
D) women do not develop gonorrhea infections but can serve as carriers to spread the disease to males.