
National STD Curriculum Podcast
Hosted by Meena Ramchandani · National STD Curriculum
4.9from 25 ratings
- 79
- Episodes
- 1
- Transcribed
- 25
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2020
- First episode
About National STD Curriculum Podcast
This podcast explores innovative and significant STD issues and discusses the clinical implications through different formats including literature reviews, expert interviews, hot topics, and conference summaries. University of Washington (UW) Associate Professor of Medicine, Program Director of the UW Infectious Diseases Fellowship Program, and Associate Editor of the National STD Curriculum Meena Ramchandani, MD, MPH is the podcast editor/host. The podcast is brought to you by the National STD Curriculum, the UW STD Prevention Training Center and is funded by a grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Learn more at www.std.uw.edu/podcast. The National STD Curriculum is a UW Infectious Diseases Education & Assessment (IDEA) Program curriculum.
- Publisher
- National STD Curriculum
- Category
- health & fitness · health & fitness · health & fitness
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 15 Sept 2020
- Latest episode
- 22 Sept 2026
Latest episodes
1 of 79 episodes have a transcript.

22 Sept 2026
Herpes Simplex Virus: Diagnostics and Patient Counseling

17 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT
Herpes Simplex Virus Testing

14 Jul 2026
Challenging Cases of Mycoplasma Genitalium
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Herpes Simplex Virus Testing
Published 17 Aug 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Yeah. So I think I'll start with the easy one first. If a person is coming in with lesions, I would definitely recommend swabbing any lesion that looks like it could be HSV to test for HSV, not only to differentiate whether it's herpes or something else, but also because our tests now can differentiate between HSV-1 and HSV-2 and the There can be some differences in natural history with those viruses, so it's helpful information for the patient. We typically, when we're swabbing a lesion, now we have PCR tests that are highly sensitive, also called NAT tests, nucleic acid amplification tests. These can detect a small amount of virus and are actually much better detecting virus than culture, which was more classically used in the past. […]
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- Christine Johnston
- Dr Olusegun Soge
- Dr. Tara Reid
- Dr. Meena Ramchandani
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