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Untreated gonorrhea can lead to major complications, such as: Infertility in women. Gonorrhea can spread into the uterus and fallopian tubes, causing pelvic inflammatory disease (PID). PID can result in scarring of the tubes, greater risk of pregnancy complications and infertility, and can be fatal, particularly in the immunocompromised.
Chlamydia, also a bacterial STI, is often asymptomatic, but left untreated can cause permanent damage to a woman’s reproductive system, making it difficult or impossible to become pregnant.
Untreated, it can lead to complications and death. [67] Clinical manifestations of syphilis include the ulceration of the uro-genital tract, mouth or rectum; if left untreated the symptoms worsen. In recent years, the prevalence of syphilis has declined in Western Europe, but it has increased in Eastern Europe (former Soviet states).
Following treatment, people should be tested again after three months. [2] Chlamydia is one of the most common sexually transmitted infections, affecting about 4.2% of women and 2.7% of men worldwide. [4] [5] In 2015, about 61 million new cases occurred globally. [11] In the United States, about 1.4 million cases were reported in 2014. [3]
A little-known sexually transmitted infection could become a superbug within the next 10 years if the way it is diagnosed and treated isn’t changed, experts have warned. Mycoplasma genitalium ...
Syphilis (/ ˈ s ɪ f ə l ɪ s /) is a sexually transmitted infection caused by the bacterium Treponema pallidum subspecies pallidum. [1] The signs and symptoms depend on the stage it presents: primary, secondary, latent or tertiary.
Hearing that you've contracted a sexually transmitted infection is obviously not great news, but it's a reality for up to a million people every single day. A new report from the World Health ...
[37] [38] TprK antigen variation can help T. pallidum to evade a strong host immune reaction and can also allow the reinfection of individuals. This is possible because the newly structured proteins can avoid antibody-specific recognition. [36] This is possible because the newly structured proteins can avoid antibody-specific recognition.