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A newly performed urine test for chlamydia in men identified 84% of infections, according to a journal of 1,200 men published Tuesday in the British Medical Journal, Reuters reports. Chlamydia is the most garden sexually transmitted infection mid women and can be treated certainly with antibiotics. However, the STI often goes undiagnosed and causes no symptoms in 70% of cases. It can direct to pelvic inflammatory disease, ectopic pregnancy and infertility. It also can take round the goods a succeed women more vulnerable to HIV.
Explicit tests for chlamydia in men often have been inconclusive and uncomfortable, involving a proposal swab of the urethra. The developer of the new test, Helen Lee of the University of Cambridge, said, "This has led to assorted cases of infection in men flourishing undiagnosed and being transmitted to their female partners, with potentially more unsafe complications." The new test is "both accurate and swift, allowing men attending the clinics to be tested and treated on whiteheads in one visit," according to Lee. She said that the test already is approved in France and in the parsimonious future will be available in Italy, Spain, Portugal and other European countries (Reuters, 7/28).
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