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Chlamydia
Venereology & Sexual Health · Infectious & Parasitic
Mild
Severity
Very common — one of the most commonly reported bacterial sexually transmitted infections globally
Prevalence
Yes
Contagious
Venereology & Sexual Health
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🔬Causes & Risk Factors
- 1Chlamydia is caused by the bacterium Chlamydia trachomatis
- 2transmitted through vaginal
- 3anal
- 4or oral sexual contact with an infected partner. It can also be passed from an infected mother to her baby during childbirth
- 5potentially causing eye or lung infections in the newborn. Risk factors for infection include having multiple sexual partners
- 6inconsistent condom use
- 7a prior history of sexually transmitted infections
- 8and being sexually active at a younger age.
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