A federal judge criticized the Trump administration for removing information about sexually transmitted diseases while a Chicago doctor is fighting a chlamydia outbreak.

Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) are rising in Europe, especially gonorrhea and syphilis, among younger adults. But one ...

Is casual sex, without protection, with one or multiple partners, something that you do often? You may end up with a sexually ...

To quantify IFUs, a lysate from a primary infection is prepared and used to infect a fresh monolayer of cells. Any inclusions in the secondary infection are derived from an EB present in the primary ...

Symptomatic patients: Both culture and NAAT are recommended. *For patients for whom chlamydia infection has not been ruled out with a negative test, concurrent treatment for chlamydia should also be ...

For all infection assays, cells were seeded at sub-confluent density in 24-well plates and grown in cell culture medium (ccm) to confluence for two days at 37°C. For approach (i), chlamydial EBs (MOI ...

Kenneth Perry, MD, an emergency physician in South Carolina, said his hospital has recently seen an uptick in emergency department visits tied to these infections. "From cough to nasal congestion ...

Fungal infections, such as athlete’s foot and ringworm, occur when one type of fungal microbe becomes too prevalent in one area of the body so that the immune system cannot defeat it.

are unaware of their infection and thus not seeking treatment; they may also be unknowingly infecting others.Footnote 22 Having an STI such as chlamydia or syphilis can increase the risk of HIV ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) recently released new estimates suggesting around 846 million people aged between 15 and 49 live with a genital herpes infection. That's equivalent to one in ...