STD screening

The well-balanced, joyful sexual life is a determining element of harmonic life style, and an essential factor to live a good quality life. Any complaint or inconvenience that may disturb it endangers one of the important sources of happiness in your life. Additionally the complications of sexually transmitted diseases (STD) may influence family planning, general health and well-being.

STD is often asymptomatic or only slight, everyday symptoms occur so you should ask for STD screening, too! In case of an STD infection the problem is noticed usually when complications –pelvic inflammatory disease, prostatic inflammation, infertility, cervical cancer- have developed. Precede the dangerous complications of STDs!

What is an STD?

STD is the abbreviation of Sexually Transmitted Diseases. Recently this abbreviation is used instead of the obsolete expression of “venereal disease” to those infectious diseases caused by different pathogens that are mainly transmitted by sexual intercourse. The most common pathogens causing an STD are: bacteria, chlamydia, mycoplasma, viruses, fungi and parasites. More than 30 pathogens may be transmitted by sexual intercourse.

Who can get an STD infection?

Anybody can get an STD infection who has an active sexual life. A source of infection occurs when the genital organs touch the partner’s genitals, the mucous membrane of the mouth or rectum during a sexual intercourse. Therefore not only vaginal intercourse is considered as sexual intercourse but oral and anal sex too, and in addition some of the pathogens may be transferred by a touch of a hand, and may spread through sharing inanimate objects.

What symptoms and complaints are caused by STD infections?

Usually no change occurs following the exposure to the pathogen and the infected person doesn’t even know that he/she has been infected, e.g. HIV. There are pathogens that only cause symptoms and complaints following a relatively long incubation period, e.g. HPV infection causing genital warts. Others cause explicitly unpleasant symptoms within a couple of hours or days e.g. gonorrhea. And there are others that are not detected for years, and only the chronic infection is revealed years later by the complications difficult to manage e.g. chlamydia, ureaplasma, mycoplasma. But we often encounter with infections recurring from time to time that are difficult to keep in track e.g. vaginal yeast infection, genital herpes.

Typically the STD infections are asymptomatic for a longer period and may be detected only by screenings.

Who and when should anyone participate in an STD screening?

Everybody who is active sexually, especially:

• both partners before having a baby
• both partners in a new relation before the first sexual intercourse without using a condom
• after a sexual intercourse with a new partner but without using a condom
• in case of any urinal or genital symptom or complaint, especially when it is recurring or not responding to therapy (eruptions or desquamation on genitals, unpleasant smell, discharge, itchiness, painful urination , warts, papulas, lesions etc.)
• in case of lower abdominal pain, arthritis,  inflammation of the eye, eruptions, feverish condition, enlarged lymph nodes.

STD screening panels in Körúti Medical Centre

For men

Basic STD screening for men: Chlamydia trachomatis, Ureaplasma urealyticum, Mycoplasma genitalium, Mycoplasma hominis	15 500 HUF
STD screening for men with gonorrhea screening: Basic package plus Neisseria gonorrhoeae test	19 000 HUF
STD screening for men supplemented with bacterial+fungal examinations: Basic package plus bacterial+fungal culture, typification, resistance	21 500 HUF
STD screening for men supplemented with syphilis and HIV screenings: Basic package plus HIV, RPR, TPHA tests	24 500 HUF
STD screening for men supplemented with HPV screening: Basic package plus HPV test	22 000 HUF
Herpes test:
Virus detection and typification from bladder content in case of asymptomatic patient	3500 HUF
Antibody detection from blood in case of asymptomatic patient	12 000 HUF

For women

Subject to the rules of our profession the examination of the stained smear is always performed in case of female patients and therefore the women packages are supplemented with a 1500 HUF additional charge!

Basic STD screening for women: Chlamydia trachomatis, Ureaplasma urealyticum, Mycoplasma genitalium, Mycoplasma hominis, stained smear	17 000 HUF
STD screening for women with gonorrhea screening: Basic package plus Neisseria gonorrhoeae test	20 500 HUF
STD screening for women supplemented with bacterial+fungal examinations: Basic package plus bacterial+fungal culture, typification, resistance	23 000 HUF
STD screening for women supplemented with syphilis and HIV screenings: Basic package plus HIV, RPR, TPHA tests	26 000 HUF
STD screening for women supplemented with HPV screening: Basic package plus HPV test	23 500 HUF
Herpes test:
Virus detection and typification from bladder content in case of asymptomatic patient	3500 HUF
Antibody detection from blood in case of asymptomatic patient	12 000 HUF
Candida screening: Candida detection in samples from the surface of the skin and the mucous membrane, typification, resistance examination per sample	6000 HUF

Special panels for women

Vaginitis-vaginosis panel (recommended in case of recurring vaginal infection, discharge, disturbance of vaginal flora): stained smear, bacterial+fungal culture, Chlamydia trachomatis, Ureaplasma urealyticum, Mycoplasma hominis, Mycoplasma genitalium, Trichomonas vaginalis, Gardnerella vaginalis, Atopobium vaginae	33 500 HUF
Cervical cancer panel: cytology and HPV detection from cervical sample	8000 HUF

Our screening packages were constructed according to the directives of our specialists of international standing (Dr. Viktória Várkonyi, Dr. Tímea Tisza).
Our physicians may recommend a combination of the examinations in different packages according to the symptoms, complaints or the medical history.
The price of the packages doesn’t contain the consultation fee!