Despite the measures of prevention and screening, the infection with chlamydia is the sexually transmitted disease most common in France . It affects mainly young people sexually active.

Chlamydia trachomatis is a highly contagious bacteria are transmitted during unprotected sex. She is responsible for infections in the urogenital both men and women . The inconsistency of the symptoms involved in the spread of this disease.

Chlamydia trachomatis can also cause disease and Nicolas Favre, as well as trachoma, which is a condition affecting the eyes of millions of people around the world (especially Asia and Africa ), whose complexity is blindness.

Note that there are other bacteria of the family Chlamydia: pneumoniae, which causes respiratory infections, and psittaci affecting animals, but can also concerned men. Continue reading →