How to treat chlamydia

The revolutionary discovery allows scientists to come close to creating a vaccine against chlamydia. In Russia, this is the most common disease transmitted through sexual contact.

For decades, scientists have been trying to fully understand the bacterium Chlamydia, which in the case of long undetected and untreated can make a man infertile. But now, researchers from British Southampton made a revolutionary discovery, allowing them to gain access to the genome of Chlamydia. What gives the right to hope for a much more sophisticated techniques treatment of chlamydia It related to the most common ailments from the category of STD.

The opening of British scientists theoretically promises in the near future, the creation of effective vaccines   treatment of chlamydia , Which affects hundreds of thousands of Russian men and women. The disease is often called the silent epidemic, because in most cases it is asymptomatic and remains untreated.

Chlamydia can cause inflammation in the pelvic area and scarring of the fallopian tubes, which ensures a high risk of ectopic pregnancy and infertility. "This is a very significant step forward in the study of chlamydia and we are proud to have made it, - said study author Professor Ian Clark. - Until recently, people were not able to study the genetics of chlamydia, which created a barrier to the full scientific understanding of the disease . Together with colleagues from Israel, we discovered that when exposed to chlamydia calcium ions to be entered of the foreign DNA. And it allows us to understand the genome of Chlamydia, which brings us closer to the creation of powerful vaccines and therapeutic interventions. "

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