Chlamydia Treatment and Care
Guidelines, Research, & Updates
- Screening for Sexually Transmitted Disease: Who, When, and How – CDC Expert Commentary on screening for MSM featuring Dr. Gail Bolan (January 9, 2012)
- CDC Grand Rounds: Chlamydia Prevention: Challenges and Strategies for Reducing Disease Burden and Sequelae MMWR April 1, 2011 (March 31, 2011)
- 2010 STD Treatment Guidelines - Chlamydial Infections - new information regarding the clinical efficacy of azithromycin for chlamydial infections in pregnancy; (December 16, 2010)
- Preventing Chlamydia – podcast commentary on how to incorporate chlamydia testing into a healthcare setting featuring Catherine Satterwhite, MSPH, MPH (June 28, 2010)
- Chlamydia trachomatis Genital Infection - Journal of Infectious Diseases Supplement, 15 June 2010 (May 21, 2010)
- Chlamydia Prevention: Challenges and Strategies for Reducing Disease Burden
(April 28, 2010) - Clinic-Based Testing for Rectal and Pharyngeal Neisseria gonorrhoeae and Chlamydia trachomatis Infections MMWR July 10, 2009 (July 10, 2009)
- Dear Colleague Letter (July 13, 2009)
- Chlamydia Screening Among Sexually Active Young Female Enrollees of Health Plans - United States, 2000-2007 MMWR April 17, 2009 (April 17, 2009)
- Expedited Partner Therapy (EPT)
What is the treatment for chlamydia?
Chlamydia can be easily treated and cured with antibiotics. A single dose of azithromycin or a week of doxycycline (twice daily) are the most commonly used treatments. HIV-positive persons with chlamydia should receive the same treatment as those who are HIV negative.
All sex partners should be evaluated, tested, and treated. Persons with chlamydia should abstain from sexual intercourse for 7 days after single dose antibiotics or until completion of a 7-day course of antibiotics, to prevent spreading the infection to partners.
Women whose sex partners have not been appropriately treated are at high risk for re-infection. Having multiple infections increases a woman's risk of serious reproductive health complications, including infertility. Women and men with chlamydia should be retested about three months after treatment of an initial infection, regardless of whether they believe that their sex partners were treated.
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