What Causes Chlamydia Infections?
Chlamydia is caused by a bacterial infection. The name of bacteria responsible for this serious STD is chlamydia trachomatis. It is easily transferred from person to person through a variety of methods of contact. How Can You Get Chlamydia? Chlamydia is considered a sexually transmitted disease because it is spread mostly through sexual contact, although it can be spread otherwise. Most people contract chlamydia through sexual intercourse and get the infection in the urethra of the man’s penis or in the cervix up inside the woman’s vagina. However, you can contract chlamydia in the back of your throat from oral sex or in your anus if you received anal sex. You can also get an infection in your eyes by touching the bacteria, then rubbing your eyes. How Do You Know if You Have Chlamydia? This is the tough part: 75 percent of women and 50 percent of men do not show symptoms when they get chlamydia. This is frightening since the disease may be ravaging your fallopian tubes or epididymis, c
