NEW STUDY: Defense Researchers Seek Genetic Makeup of Chlamydia

A new five-year program project in the battle against the number one leading sexually transmitted disease, Chlamydia, has begun at the Uniformed Services University (USU) of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Md.

USU Researcher Shares $12.2 Million to Study Chlamydia trachomatis

What may be the most comprehensive study of the sexually transmitted bacterium Chlamydia trachomatis is now underway, thanks to a $12.2 million grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) of the National Institutes of Health. The multi-institutional five-year study will perform molecular genomics analyses of the disease-causing powers of Chlamydia on a scale never before attempted. Anthony T. Maurelli, Ph.D., department of Microbiology and Immunology of the F. Edward Hébert School of Medicine at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, along with Patrik Bavoil, Ph.D. and Jacques Ravel, Ph.D., both at the University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB), will lead the study.

Telling partners about chlamydia: how acceptable are the new technologies?

Partner notification is accepted as a vital component in the control of chlamydia. However, in reality, many sexual partners of individuals diagnosed with chlamydia are never informed of their risk.

The newer technologies of email and SMS have been used as a means of improving partner notification rates. This study explored the use and acceptability of different partner notification methods to help inform the development of strategies and resources to increase the number of partners notified.

Chlamydia, Hepatitis on top of list of local communicable diseases

As the public health nurses at the Ross County Health District prepare a communicable disease report for 2009, a few familiar foes once again topped the list.