In fact, women who become reinfected with chlamydia have an even higher risk for PID and ectopic pregnancy than those with a first infection. Due to these risks, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CDC recommends that any person who tests positive for chlamydia be retested three months after treatment. In most cases infections found on retesting are new infections, transmitted by either an untreated prior partner or an infected new partner. Jason Koebler at Motherboad says that earlier studies suggest that women are more likely to see these spontaneously reoccurring infections.
Two things would explain that—treatment failures that could occur because of antibiotic resistance, or reinfection. Rank says that, though treatment failure in chlamydia is rising, in mice studies, antibiotics were much less effective on GI chlamydia than on genital chlamydia. Rank suggests that women suffer self-reinfection at a higher rate than men for the same reason that they are more likely to have urinary tract infections.
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Does your partner need to get treated, too? Is there anything you can do to minimize the risk of future reoccurrence? What exactly causes chlamydia? When to see a healthcare professional. The bottom line. Read this next. Medically reviewed by Janet Brito, Ph.
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