As health care services begin offering doxycycline to prevent bacterial sexually transmitted infections (STIs), real-world evidence demonstrates that the postexposure strategy, called doxy PEP, is ...
Chlamydia is often called a “silent infection” because many people don’t know they have it. It’s caused by a type of bacteria called Chlamydia trachomatis and can affect both men and women. While it’s ...
"About 80% of people with chlamydia don't develop symptoms," notes Dr. Michael Shen, an internal medicine physician at NYC Health + Hospitals/Brooklyn. But when symptoms do occur, they typically ...
Current public health guidelines recommend that only gay men and people with HIV should be routinely screened for extragenital gonorrhea and chlamydia, given the high burden of these sexually ...
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. - Rates of gonorrhea and chlamydia, two common sexually transmitted infections (STIs), have risen noticeably in New York City, according to the newly-released 2023 data from the ...
As health care services begin offering doxycycline to prevent bacterial sexually transmitted infections (STIs), real-world evidence demonstrates that the postexposure strategy, called doxy PEP, is ...
Illustration depicting a chlamydia-infected cell. Chlamydia trachomatis bacteria (represented by small dark spherical shapes colorized blue) undergo development within a membrane-enclosed "inclusion ...