Pregnant adolescent females must be made aware of the high prevalence of chlamydial infections in their age group and of the life-altering consequences for themselves and their newborn if the ...

Georgia continues to see a high rate of sexually transmitted diseases, despite a drop in case numbers nationally, according to the CDC ...

The U.S. syphilis epidemic slowed dramatically last year, gonorrhea cases fell and chlamydia cases remained below prepandemic levels.

Although erythromycin is the treatment of choice for neonatal chlamydial infections ... Cooper and coworkers [7] reviewed charts of 804 infants, 3 to 90 days old, and found an almost eightfold ...

Chlamydia is an infection caused by the bacterium Chlamydia ... the eye by a hand moistened with infected secretions, and to a newborn from an infected mother during delivery.

“If the chlamydia is untreated by delivery, eye infections and pneumonia may be problems in newborns.” Luckily diagnosis is fairly straightforward, with a urine test or a vaginal swab. The swab looks ...

Chlamydia, a bacterial infection, was the most common STI in ... preterm birth or even newborn death. All pregnant people should also get tested on their first prenatal visit.