What is Chlamydia?
Chlamydia infection is a sexually transmitted infection (STI) in humans caused by bacteri''''Chlamydia trachomatis. The term Chlamydia infection can also refer to infections caused by species belonging to the family bakteri''Chlamydiaceae''. C.'' ''Trachomatis is found only in humans. Chlamydia is a major infectious cause of venereal disease and the human eye.
Chlamydia infection is a sexually transmitted infection is most common around the world, it is estimated that about 1 million people in the United States are infected with chlamydia.
C.'' ''Trachomatis is naturally found living only inside human cells. Chlamydia can be transmitted during vaginal intercourse, anal, or oral, and can be transmitted from infected mother to her baby during vaginal childbirth. Between half and three-quarters of all women who have chlamydial infection of the cervix (cervicitis) do not have symptoms and did not know they are infected. In men, infection of the urethra (urethritis) are usually the symptoms, causes a white discharge from the penis with or without pain on urination (dysuria). Sometimes, the condition spreads to the upper genital tract in women (causing pelvic inflammatory disease) or the epididymis in men (cause epididymitis). If untreated, chlamydial infections can cause serious health problems and other reproductive consequences of short-term and long term.
Chlamydia conjunctivitis or trachoma is a common cause of blindness worldwide. World Health Organization estimates that it accounted for 15% of cases of blindness in 1995, but only 3.6% in 2002.
Chlamydia causes more than 250,000 cases of epididymitis in the U.S. each year. Chlamydia causes 250,000 to 500,000 cases of PID every year in the United States. Women infected with chlamydia are up to five times more likely to become infected with HIV, if exposed.
Recent phylogenetic studies have revealed that chlamydia shares a common ancestor with modern plants and unusual plants that retain the properties such as (both genetic and physiological). Specifically, enzyme''L, L-diaminopimelate''aminotransferase, associated with the production of lysine in plants, are also associated with the development of cell walls that chlamydia. Genetic coding for the enzyme is very similar in plants and chlamydia, demonstrating close ancestors. Unexpected discovery may help scientists develop new treatments of the road: if scientists could find a safe and effective''L inhibitor, L-diaminopimelate''aminotransferase, they may have a new antibiotic is very effective and highly specific for chlamydia.
