A very small parasitic bacterium like a virus, it requires another cell to live off of and reproduce it basically needs other weak cells to take over. This bacteria causes the disease known as Chlamydia.
What is Chlamydia? Chlamydia is a common STD that can infect both men and women. It can cause serious and permanent damage to a woman's reproductive system. Making it difficult or impossible for her to get pregnant later on. Chlamydia can also cause a potentially fatal ectopic pregnancy.
How is chlamydia spread? You can get chlamydia by having vaginal, anal, or oral sex with someone who has chlamydia. If the person you are having intercourse with is a guy who has chlamydia you can still catch it even if he doesn’t ejaculate. If …show more content…
The only way to avoid STDs is to not have vaginal, anal, or oral sex. If you are sexually active, you can do the following things to lower your chances of getting chlamydia:
• Being in a long-term mutually monogamous relationship with a partner who has been tested and has negative STD test results;
• Using latex condoms the right way every time you have sex.
• Or the old fashion way Abstinence
What kind of antibiotics treats Chlamydia?
Doxycycline dosage: 100 mg orally twice a day for 7 days for urogenital chlamydial infection (chlamydial urethritis and cervicitis).
Azithromycin has in many ways revolutionized the treatment of chlamydial infections. It is one of the most widely studied antibiotics for chlamydia and provides a cure rate of 96%6 (Hughbert, C. (15, June/July). Google. Retrieved March 04, 2016, from https://www.google.com/#q=what antibiotics treat chlamydia trachomatis) Is Chlamydia Resistant to antibiotics? Some cases have been reported that Chlamydia is resistant to some antibiotics but there is no actual evidence that it is. There hasn’t been a recorded experiment since 1998 on Chlamydia we are still using the same methods as back