Chlamydia positive

Summer is a period when pathogenic microorganisms multiply in large numbers. If our body's resistance is reduced, it will be easy to be infected by pathogenic microorganisms and cause us to become ill. There are many pathogenic microorganisms that cause human diseases, such as influenza virus, mycoplasma, chlamydia, etc. Among these diseases, some pathogenic microorganisms infect different parts of our body and cause different diseases, such as mycoplasma, chlamydia, etc.

When talking about Chlamydia, many people will think of sexually transmitted diseases. Indeed, when Chlamydia infects our urogenital tract, if we have sexual intercourse with an uncured patient, we may be infected with Chlamydia. However, there are far more Chlamydia that can cause disease in our body. Let's take a brief look at them below.

1. Trachoma: caused by Chlamydia trachomatis biovar A, B, Ba, and C serotypes. It is mainly transmitted through direct or indirect contact, i.e. eye-to-eye or eye-to-hand-to-eye. When Chlamydia trachomatis infects conjunctival epithelial cells, it proliferates in them and forms scattered, cap-shaped, mulberry-shaped or filling-shaped inclusion bodies in the cytoplasm. The disease develops slowly, with acute or subacute inflammation of the eyelid conjunctiva appearing in the early stages, manifested by symptoms and signs such as tearing, mucopurulent secretions, and conjunctival congestion. In the later stage, it turns into a chronic disease, with conjunctival scarring, entropion, trichiasis, and corneal damage caused by corneal pannus, which affects vision and eventually leads to blindness. According to statistics, trachoma is the leading cause of blindness.

2. Inclusion body pericystitis: caused by serotypes D to K of trachoma organism variants. Including both infants and adults. The former is caused by infection of the infant's birth canal, which causes acute purulent conjunctivitis (inclusion body pus leakage into the eye), does not invade the cornea, and can heal itself. Adult infection can occur through sexual contact, hand-to-eye contact, or from contaminated swimming pool water, causing follicular conjunctivitis, also known as swimming pool conjunctivitis. The lesions are similar to trachoma, but there is no corneal pannus and no conjunctival scarring. They usually heal within weeks or months without sequelae.

3. Urinary and reproductive tract infection: It is transmitted through sexual contact. In men, it often presents as urethritis, which can be relieved without treatment, but most of them turn into chronic diseases, which worsen periodically and may be combined with epididymitis, proctitis, etc. In women, it can cause urethritis, cervicitis, etc. Salpingitis is a more serious complication that can lead to female infertility. This serotype can sometimes cause Chlamydia trachomatis pneumonia.

4. Lymphogranuloma venereum

5. Respiratory tract infection: caused by Chlamydia pneumoniae and Chlamydia psittaci.

6. Immunity Chlamydia infection can induce heterosexual cellular and humoral immunity.

The above are the diseases that we may develop when the chlamydia test is positive. Because there are many types of chlamydia that infect the human body, and the diseases caused by different infection sites are also different, so if we test positive for chlamydia, we must combine other clinical tests to confirm the type of chlamydia infection.