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What is the procedure for determining if someone has Chlamydia? Is it a standard blood test?

The page koala claims that koalas can have chlamydia. Aside from the obvious dirty jokes, some information about chlamydia in non-human species might be relevant here. --FOo 17:12, 24 Jan 2004 (UTC)It seems cougars or pumas are also having problems with this disease.

Why is there a "Closing Statements," section to this article? It's just so tacky, and useless.

Is it true that they put something in the eyes of babies when they are born to kill off this disease?

Chlamydia and oral sex It is given on [1] that Chlamydia is difficult to get by oral sex. The bacteria does not infect the oral area as much as the genitals.

[edit] Orthography

As far I’m concerned I think taxonomical names must be written in italic text, as the following: Escherichia coli or E. coli. Please, revise than question.

The Veronica Mars paragraph is irrelevant for this topic and should be removed. 15:52, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

Conjunctivitis effects

[edit] Acquiring Chlamydia without sexual contact?

Chlamydia is just as likely to occur when there is no recent sexual contact, recent onset of menses, or an IUD in place or if the partner has a sexually transmitted disease.

Is it possible to become infected with chlamydia without having sexual contact to an infected person? Can I take the quoted sentence from paragraph 3 of the article to mean that? --82.207.230.185 19:05, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

It's very unclear what the author of that sentence was trying to say. They may have meant:

• That you can become infected even if you are not having regular sexual contact (which is true - you can get it from a single sexual encounter).
• That symptoms may occur spontaneously in a previously infected person without any recent sexual contact (also true).
• That you can contract chlamydia from non-sexual contact. This is true, but quite rare. Newborn babies can catch chlamydia from their mothers during birth, and hand-to-eye infections and other non-sexual infections are possible.

However, the statement as worded is very vague. -- 125.236.147.165 11:51, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Unclear sentence

In the article, I read the following sentence:

Appendicitis, ectopic pregnancy, septic abortion, hemorrhagic or ruptured ovarian cysts or tumors, twisted ovarian cyst, degeneration of a myoma, and acute enteritis must be considered.

Can someone replace the that sentence with a clearer explanation. The sentence tells me to consider several unpleasant conditions, or at least that someone must consider them. I wonder who must consider these conditions, when must they be considered, and why must these conditions be considered.

Moreover, it does not become clear whether the fact that these conditions must be considered has any relationship with the subject off this article, which is Chlamydia. I suppose it has, because someone wrote that sentence in this article and not in the article Influenza.

One more thing, could someone also explain how these conditions must be considered? Is it okay if I just lean back in my chair for five minutes, and quitly consider appendicitis and that other stuff? Or should something else be done as well? And I would welcome some links from those hard words to some applicable Wikipedia articles as well. Johan Lont 11:57, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

The unclear sentence originates from this edit. Johan Lont 12:04, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

I have further investigated the origins from that sentence. It seems to come from some edits done from IP-address 86.43.65.247 on February 6, 2007. Looks like nonsense. For example, the next sentence was cut off halfway. I will delete those edits. Johan Lont 12:11, 13 March 2007 (UTC)