STD / Venereology Testing

MCP offers comprehensive STD testing for a full range of sexually transmitted infections: chlamydia, mycoplasma, gonorrhoea, syphilis, HIV, and rarer pathogens. Anonymous testing is available — a meaningful differentiator in a Czech market where most public STD testing involves registration. Home sampling kits can be dispatched for patients preferring to collect outside the clinic. Tests are processed through Ústav lékařské biochemie a laboratorní diagnostiky VFN Praha, the state STD reference laboratory.

MCP's STD and venereology service is led by MUDr. Barbora Klubalová (venereology, dermatology) and offers several features not standard in Prague private clinics. **Anonymity:** Patients can request anonymous testing — results are linked to a code, not a name. This is a significant differentiator; most Czech healthcare facilities require identification and register findings. **Home sampling kit:** For patients who prefer not to attend the clinic for sample collection, MCP can provide a home sampling kit. Samples are returned to the clinic by courier or in person for lab processing. **STD panel coverage:** - **Chlamydia trachomatis** — PCR from urogenital swab or first-catch urine - **Mycoplasma genitalium and Ureaplasma urealyticum** — PCR - **Neisseria gonorrhoeae (gonorrhoea)** — culture + PCR - **Treponema pallidum (syphilis)** — TPHA, RPR (quantitative for active infection) - **HIV-1/2** — 4th generation Ag/Ab combination test; p24 antigen detected during window period - **Hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg)** and **anti-HCV** (hepatitis C) - **Herpes simplex virus types 1 and 2** — IgG/IgM serology or PCR from lesion swab - **HPV genotyping** — high-risk strains (16, 18, 31, 33, 45, 51, 52, 56, 58) - **Rare STDs** (Lymphogranuloma venereum, Haemophilus ducreyi) — available on clinical suspicion **Confirmatory testing:** Under Czech law, reactive findings for notifiable STDs (HIV, syphilis, gonorrhoea) must be confirmed by the National Reference Laboratory. MCP coordinates this automatically; the confirmatory tests are billed additionally at the reference lab's standard rate. **Lab partner:** Ústav lékařské biochemie a laboratorní diagnostiky VFN Praha (U Nemocnice 2, Praha 2) — the principal state STD reference laboratory, ensuring the highest sensitivity/specificity standards. **Returning travellers:** MCP also recommends STD screening as part of its infectious disease programme for travellers returning from regions with elevated STD prevalence.