Chlamydia trachomatis
Study Finds No Gender Difference in Transmission Rates
Published in Women's Health Weekly, December 23rd, 1996
Using sensitive diagnostic techniques, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) researchers have shown that men and women are equally likely to contract Chlamydia trachomatis from infected sex partners. Previous studies had suggested that male-to-female transmission of chlamydia, the most common sexually transmitted pathogen in the United States, occurred more often than female-to-male transmission.
"Within heterosexual partnerships, the transmission efficiency of chlamydia appears to be bidirectional and equal," said Thomas C. Quinn, M.D., M.Sc., of NIAID's Laboratory of Immunoregulation and The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine...
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