A Male Patient Who Has Been Diagnosed with Gonococcal Urethritis

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