Synonyms for chlamydia
kləˈmɪd i ə; -ˈmɪd iˌichlamy·di·a

Princeton's WordNet

1. chlamydianoun

   a sexually transmitted infection caused by bacteria of the genus Chlamydia

2. chlamydianoun

   coccoid rickettsia infesting birds and mammals; cause infections of eyes and lungs and genitourinary tract

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1. • Eubacteria
   • Venereal Disease

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1. Hunter Handsfield:

   There are 1.7 million cases of chlamydia in the United States, and we know that rates are higher in women than men. And we also know more than half of the women who get infected with chlamydia had only a single sexual partner in the last year.

2. Hunter Handsfield:

   Maybe there's a little discharge, a little itch, it's easy for a woman to think it's a yeast infection and self-treat while the chlamydia is climbing up into her fallopian tubes.

3. Katherine Belov:

   With time, we will get to really understand why some animals recover from chlamydia and why others don't, and that will help us develop therapies to treat koalas.

4. Mark Krockenberger:

   All that leads to poor chlamydia response. It gets them from low grade chlamydia infections to more serious disease, that's what we're doing to them. And we're doing it on all fronts.

5. Mark Lawton:

   We are already seeing resistance to mycoplasma genitalium because we are using antibiotics that treat chlamydia very well but doesn't treat mycoplasma very well.