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CHLAMYDIA

Most common STD
Females outnumber males 6 to 1
Cervix is site of infection
Most women are asymptomatic until the pain and fever from PID occur

If symptomatic - discharge, painful urination, lower abdominal pain, bleeding, fever and nausea
Complications include; cervicitis, infertility, chronic pain, salpingitis, ectopic pregnancies, stillbirths, reactive arthritis.

20-40% of women infected with chlamydia will develop PID (Pelvic Inflammatory Disease)
9% ectopic pregnancy
20% will become infertile
18% chronic pelvic pain

Otitis media in infants
Inclusion conjunctivitis
Sterility

Urethritis
Epididymitis
Proctitis
Cervicitis
Endometritis
Salpingitis
Perihepatitis

Diagnostic Methods :
Direct fluorescent antibody
Enzyme immunoassay
Nucleic acid hybridization (DNA probe)
Cell culture
DNA amplification

Treatment
Doxycycline 100 mg orally 2 times a day for 7 days or
Azithromycin (Zithromax) 1 g orally

Azithromycin and doxycycline are equally effective
abstain from sexual intercourse for 7 days
sex partners must be evaluated and treated

parin · Credits: 14530 My Scrapbook My Reading List 1 Books

Whether it causes salphingitis or not is debatable..

The organism has been isolated from fallopian tubes, but it does not cause inflammation there..

tanmay_mehta · Credits: 16681 My Scrapbook My Reading List 3 Books

yes it causes salpingitis..

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