Chlamydia is often called a “silent infection” because many people don’t know they have it. It’s caused by a type of bacteria called Chlamydia trachomatis and can affect both men and women. While it’s ...

"About 80% of people with chlamydia don't develop symptoms," notes Dr. Michael Shen, an internal medicine physician at NYC Health + Hospitals/Brooklyn. But when symptoms do occur, they typically ...

Illustration depicting a chlamydia-infected cell. Chlamydia trachomatis bacteria (represented by small dark spherical shapes colorized blue) undergo development within a membrane-enclosed "inclusion ...

The genus chlamydia includes several species that can cause sexually transmitted infections (STIs), pneumonia and other respiratory infections, eye infections, and more illnesses. When you hear the ...

As health care services begin offering doxycycline to prevent bacterial sexually transmitted infections (STIs), real-world evidence demonstrates that the postexposure strategy, called doxy PEP, is ...

Despite suspicions about an unfaithful partner, it is possible to get a sexually transmitted infection (STI) without cheating. This could be due to a long-standing infection that was never diagnosed ...