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Chlamydia (cont.)

Next Steps

Follow-up

  • Finish the entire course of antibiotics your doctor prescribes, even if you're feeling fine and symptoms go away.
  • Notify any and all sexual partners of infection. They should be treated or tested so the infection is not passed back and forth.
  • Be retested if your symptoms continue or you think you have been reinfected. Having the infection once does not confer immunity to repeat infection.
  • Use latex condoms during sexual intercourse.


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