Chlamydia Research Paper

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Chlamydia is one of the most well known sexual transmitted diseases(STD) in the world amongst all men and women. This disease is transmitted by anal, oral, and vaginal intercourse. The longer the disease stays infested in a person's body it damages the reproductive system for both genders. Women can get chlamydia in cervix, rectum, or throat. For men they can get chlamydia urethra which mean inside the penis, rectum and throat. It leads to problem with pregnancy for women and genital problem for men.

Etiology of disease
Chlamydia is caused by the bacterium chlamydia trachomatis. Many people do not experience symptoms after being infected with the virus. It is mostly common amongst the age of 14 to 25 of age. Bacteria, viruses and parasites cause sexually transmitted diseases (STD).
Chlamydia are bacterial organisms with the viral characteristic of requiring living cells in which to replicate. Long recognized as the most common cause of blindness in
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Some of the questions would be if he or she think they are infected and how, if there are abnormal discharge or bleeding, any urinal pain, if a condom was in use during sexual intercourse, if they ever had a disease before and were they ever treated for it, if there are any genital sores, and if the perosn has more than one ssexual partner. After the question are established then a pelvic and urine exam is given to the women and genital and urine exam for the men. Within a week the results should be given back to the patient. If a person is diagnosed for chlamydia then the doctor would write a prescription for antibiotics. If it is not taken properly the infection will not be cured. It is necessary to get tested every month if a person every month especially if they have more than one sexual partners. The sooner a person knows about it the faster they get rid of it also stopping the spreading of the