What is Chlamydia?

• C trachomatis infection affects the cervix, urethra, salpinges, uterus, nasopharynx, and epididymis • It is the most commonly reported bacterial sexually transmitted infection (STI) in the USA and a leading cause of infertility in women • C trachomatis infection causes other diseases as well, including conjunctivitis, pneumonia or pneumonitis, afebrile pneumonia syndrome (in infants born vaginally to infected mothers), Fitz-HughCurtis syndrome, and trachoma (the world’s leading cause of acquired blindness)