In addition to a national decrease in STIs overall, the CDC said there was a slowdown in the number of new cases of newborn ...

Genital Chlamydia trachomatis infection is a significant public health burden; Professor of Pediatrics and Microbiology and ...

There's some good news about sexually-transmitted diseases in newly released U.S. health data. The syphilis epidemic slowed ...

(CNN) — Although sexually transmitted infections are still at an epidemic level in the US, scientists at the US Centers for ...

TOKYO, Nov. 7, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- The Global Health Innovative Technology (GHIT) Fund announced today a total investment of approximately JPY 578 million ( USD 4.0 million1) in four projects for the ...

Azithromycin is an antibiotic medicine which was originally developed to treat trachoma, an infection caused by the bacterium Chlamydia trachomatis that affects the eyes. Trachoma is the leading ...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) confirmed on October 21 that Vietnam has eliminated trachoma, a contagious, bacterial disease that may eventually lead to blindness.

Trachoma is an eye disease caused by infection with the bacterium Chlamydia trachomatis. The infection is transmitted by direct or indirect transfer of eye and nose discharges of infected people ...

The WHO states that trachoma is a devastating eye disease caused by an infection with the bacterium Chlamydia trachomatis. The infection spreads from person to person through contaminated fingers ...

Chlamydia trachomatis (CT) is one of the most prevalent bacterial sexually transmitted infections worldwide, with an estimated 131 million new cases annually (Newman et al., 2015). While CT infections ...

1 This means 20 countries have now eliminated the infection, including Pakistan, Nepal, China, and Iran. Trachoma, which is caused by infection with Chlamydia trachomatis, is still a public ...