other sexually transmitted diseases

Chlamydia trachomatis is an intracellular bacterium. It is the most common bacterial STD with the highest rates in patients under 25 years of age. Unfortunately, there is a high rate of asymptomatic infection which is very important because you can have the disease and not know it.
Complications in women include pelvic inflammatory disease, ectopic pregnancy and infertility. It is also associated with an increased risk of HIV acquisition.
Untreated chlamydia infection during pregnancy is associated with an increased risk of preterm delivery and premature rupture of membranes.
Mother-to-child transmission occurs at the time of vaginal birth and may result in ophthalmia neonatorum and pneumonitis in the infant and postpartum endometritis in the mothe5r