What is chlamydia?
Chlamydia is an infection. It's normally considered to be a sexually transmitted disease because, in the vast majority of cases, it involves genitals and is transmitted sexually. Chlamydia is a very small bacteria-type organism which responds to sudden antibiotics, but we sometimes don't manage to get rid of it completely from the system. Because it's a type of organism that in some ways can imitate a virus, Chlamydia treatments are inevitably short and will control the acute attack. However, the patient may experience recurrent episodes through his lifetime because we haven't managed to eliminate the infection completely. Sometimes Chlamydia is involved as a conjunctivitis, particularly in babies, and they might have picked it up through the birth canal from the mother. Similarly, it will respond to treatment, initially sometimes, but more rarely, so will they develop recurrences.
